MITCHELL v. MITCHELL

No. 5922.

655 P.2d 748 (1982)

Judith MITCHELL, Colleen Sullivan, Shawn Sullivan and Kevin Sullivan, Appellants, v. Patrick MITCHELL and Western Geophysical Company of America, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

November 12, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Shimek, Shimek & Peabody, Anchorage, for appellants.

Kenneth P. Jacobus, Gordon Tans, Hughes, Thorsness, Gantz, Powell & Brundin, Anchorage, and Monica Jenicek, Kermit E. Barker, Jr., Lane, Powell, Ruskin, Barker & Hicks, Anchorage, for appellees.

Before RABINOWITZ, CONNOR, MATTHEWS and COMPTON, JJ., and DIMOND, Senior Justice.


OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

This appeal involves the issues of whether the superior court erred procedurally and substantively in granting judgment in favor of Western Geophysical Company of America.

On April 28, 1975, Michael O. Mitchell died as a result of a helicopter crash on the North Slope of Alaska. He left surviving him a widow, Judith Mitchell, and a son by a prior marriage, Patrick Orten Mitchell. He also left three stepchildren born of Judith...

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