PORT VALDEZ COMPANY, INC. v. CITY OF VALDEZ

No. 1996.

522 P.2d 1147 (1974)

PORT VALDEZ COMPANY, INC., a Washington corporation, Appellant, v. CITY OF VALDEZ, Alaska, a municipal corporation, et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

May 20, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Pletcher, III, Merdes, Schaible, Staley & DeLisio, Anchorage, for appellant.

Kenneth P. Jacobus, Hughes, Thorsness, Lowe, Gantz & Clark, Anchorage, for appellee City of Valdez.

David B. Ruskin, Anchorage, for appellee Local Boundary Comm.

Before RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice, CONNOR, BOOCHEVER and FITZGERALD, Justices, and DIMOND, Justice Pro Tem.


OPINION

BOOCHEVER, Justice.

The instant action chronicles the latest chapter in the acrimonious relationship between the Port Valdez Company, plaintiff and appellant here, and the City of Valdez, Alaska.1 At stake is the validity of a substantial annexation by the city of land which encompasses a parcel of the company's property. Underlying this more abstract determination is the legality of the tax burden the city seeks to impose...

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