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HONSINGER v. STATE

No. 5622.

642 P.2d 1352 (1982)

Fred S. HONSINGER, E. Lenore Honsinger, Theodore J. Smith, Sara J. Smith, Petitioners, v. STATE of Alaska, and each and every Heir or Devisee, Known and Unknown, Executor and Administrator of the Estate of George Danner, and all other Parties, Legal Entities, Successors and Assigns, Unknown, Claiming any Right, Title, Estate, Lien or Interest in the Real Property or any part thereof Described in the Complaint, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

April 16, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James N. Reeves, Faulkner, Banfield, Doogan & Holmes, Anchorage, for petitioners.

Madeleine R. Levy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, for respondents.

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

OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

This case started as a quiet title action brought against the state in 1973. Plaintiffs are the owners of homestead lands in the Mendenhall Wetlands area northwest of Juneau. Between the time of the original federal homestead patent surveys and 1973, approximately 95 acres of land had emerged contiguous to the seaward side of plaintiffs' property.

Plaintiffs claimed that the property in dispute was created by accretion and...

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