CWC FISHERIES, INC. v. BUNKER

No. S-1995.

755 P.2d 1115 (1988)

CWC FISHERIES, INC. and Eric Randall, Appellants, v. Dean B. BUNKER, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

June 3, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Eldridge Hicks and Bruce Falconer, Hicks, Boyd & Chandler, Anchorage, for appellants.

Arthur S. Robinson, Soldotna, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, BURKE, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ.


OPINION

BURKE, Justice.

This appeal presents the question of whether tidelands conveyed pursuant to class I tideland preference rights under AS 38.05.820 were conveyed subject to the public's right to fish the waters above those tidelands. We conclude that they were, and we therefore affirm the judgment of the superior court dismissing CWC Fisheries' trespass claim against Dean Bunker.

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