STATE v. OSBORNE

No. 4385.

607 P.2d 369 (1980)

STATE of Alaska, Appellant, v. Harold OSBORNE and Agnes Osborne, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

March 7, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

James H. Cannon, Rice, Hoppner, Ingraham & Brown, Fairbanks, for appellees.

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


OPINION

BOOCHEVER, Justice.

The question in this case is whether a house builder's employee can recover back wages directly against the home buyers under a theory that the employee was a third party beneficiary to a contract between the builder and the buyers. The district court directed a verdict for the home buyers, the superior court agreed, and we affirm.

Harold Osborne contracted with James Handy to build a house for $43,000.00. The First National...

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