STATE, DEPT. OF NATURAL RESOURCES v. PANKRATZ

Nos. 2153, 2156.

538 P.2d 984 (1975)

STATE of Alaska, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, Cross-Appellant, v. Fred PANKRATZ and Helen Pankratz, Cross-Appellee. Fred PANKRATZ and Helen Pankratz, Appellants, v. STATE of Alaska, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

August 1, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Bixler Whiting, of Whiting & Associates, Fairbanks, for appellants and cross-appellee.

Stanley T. Fischer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, Norman C. Gorsuch, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee and cross-appellant.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., CONNOR and BOOCHEVER, JJ., and DIMOND, J. Pro Tem.


OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

This case raises legal and factual questions concerning the law of accretion in Alaska. Fred and Helen Pankratz have brought an appeal seeking costs and attorney's fees following a quiet-title judgment rendered in their favor by the superior court. The State of Alaska has cross-appealed, claiming that the trial court erred in finding that the property, located on the Chena River near Fairbanks, has accreted to the legal benefit of...

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