SLOAN v. ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY

No. 2047.

541 P.2d 717 (1975)

Annie Bell SLOAN, Individually and as Executrix of the Estate of Moses C. Sloan, Deceased, et al., Appellants, v. ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

October 15, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Blair, Julian C. Rice and Hugh Fleischer, of Rice, Hoppner, Blair & Hedland, Fairbanks, for appellants.

Patrick E. Murphy, Fairbanks, John P. Cook of Lee, Smart, Cook, Dunlap & Biehl, P.S. Inc., Seattle, Wash., for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and CONNOR, ERWIN and BOOCHEVER, JJ.


OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment based on a jury verdict in favor of appellee Atlantic Richfield Co. (ARCO) in a wrongful death action brought by the widow of a carpenter killed in a construction accident on the North Slope.

The deceased, Moses Sloan, was killed August 5, 1969, while working on the construction of the ARCO base camp at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Mr. Sloan was employed by Ramstad Construction Co., which had been...

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