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PALMER v. BORG-WARNER CORP.

No. S-4101.

838 P.2d 1243 (1992)

Lorraine F. PALMER and Edward E. Dillon, Jr., Personal Representatives of the Estate of Merrett P. Palmer, Appellants, v. BORG-WARNER CORPORATION and its Division Marvel-Schebler/Tillotson, Facet Aerospace Products Company, Facet Enterprises, Inc.; and Edward DePriest, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

September 25, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sanford M. Gibbs, Hagans, Brown, Gibbs and Moran, Anchorage, Steven D. Smith, Anchorage, and H. Van Z. Lawrence, Fairbanks, for appellants.

David T. Hunter and Michael K. Nave, Lane Powell Spears Lubersky, Anchorage, for appellees.

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

OPINION

COMPTON, Justice.

This appeal is from the trial court's denial of an Alaska Civil Rule 60(b) motion for relief from a Judgment of Dismissal. We reverse and direct the court to reconsider the motion.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On September 8, 1986, a Piper PA-18 aircraft crashed in the Brooks Range, roughly thirty miles south of Umiat. Kenneth Swanson, the pilot, and Merrett P. Palmer, his sole passenger, died in the accident...

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