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FILE v. STATE

Nos. 3482, 3537.

593 P.2d 268 (1979)

Thomas L. FILE, Elizabeth J. File, Robert H. File, Flora V. File, Boris Chernikoff, Jr. and Ellen E. Chernikoff, Appellants, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

April 6, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Petersen, Juneau, A. Lee Petersen, Anchorage, for appellants.

G. Thomas Koester, Asst. Atty. Gen., Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

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

OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

This is a land dispute. The land in question consists of approximately 117 acres added by accretion to the shoreline of the Gastineau Channel over the last fifty years. The appellants claim that Daniel Pederson, their predecessor in interest, homesteaded the shoreline to which the land accreted, and that the land belongs to them. The state claims that the federal government retained its interest in the shoreline and that the state...

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