LONG v. NEWBY

No. 1278.

488 P.2d 719 (1971)

Merritt LONG and Phyllis Long, husband and wife, d/b/a Matanuska Valley Collection Service, Appellants, v. Nada NEWBY, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

September 14, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard F. Lytle, of Houston & Lytle, Anchorage, for appellants.

Francis J. Nosek, Jr., and Bennett Williams, Anchorage, for appellee.

Before BONEY, C.J., and DIMOND, RABINOWITZ, CONNOR and ERWIN, JJ.


OPINION

ERWIN, Justice.

We deal for the first time in this appeal with the tort of intentional interference with contractual relations. The superior court below awarded $7,400 in damages to appellee Nada Newby based on a jury finding that appellant Merritt Long had intentionally caused her loss of employment.

In 1956 Myron Newby, a former resident of Alaska and husband of appellee, Nada Newby, was treated...

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