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KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH v. STATE

No. 2092.

532 P.2d 1019 (1975)

KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH and the Home Insurance Company, Appellants, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

March 12, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth P. Jacobus, Anchorage, for appellants.

Sanford Gibbs, Anchorage, for appellee.

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

OPINION

BOOCHEVER, Justice.

The seldom litigated question of when a political subdivision acts as an agent of the state so as to render the state liable for the acts of the subdivision is presented by this appeal.

On January 15, 1969, James Harman was injured and his wife was killed as the result of a collision with a school bus owned by Burton Carver and driven by Darrell Houston. Mr. Harman, individually and as administrator of the estate of his...

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