1. Home
  2. Browse Decisions
  3. P.2d
  4. 550 P.2d
  5. 550 P.2d 820 (1976)
 

STATE v. HAMMER

Nos. 2500, 2660.

550 P.2d 820 (1976)

STATE of Alaska, Appellant, v. John HAMMER et al., Appellees. KITO'S KAVE, INC., Cross-Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Cross-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

May 24, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas R. Wickwire, Asst. Atty. Gen., Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellant and cross-appellee.

L.B. Jacobson of Robertson, Monagle, Eastaugh & Bradley, Anchorage, for appellee and cross-appellants, Kito's Kave.

Michael M. Holmes of Faulkner, Banfield, Doogan & Holmes, Juneau, for appellee, John Hammer.

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

BURKE, Justice.

This appeal raises a question of first impression concerning the state's obligation to compensate the owner of a business for damage done to that business by the state's exercise of its powers of eminent domain.

In May, 1973, the State of Alaska filed a complaint under AS 09.55.240, et seq., against certain lands in Petersburg, Alaska, which were in the path of the Petersburg Highway. One of these parcels was owned by appellee Hammer...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases