LAKE COLLEEN ENT. v. ESTATE OF MARK

No. S-7759.

951 P.2d 427 (1997)

LAKE COLLEEN ENTERPRISES, INC., Appellant, v. ESTATE OF Michael Raymond MARK, Marguerite E. Biscoe, Personal Representative of the Estate of Michael Raymond Mark, and Ray Mark, Sr., Individually, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

Rehearing Denied February 24, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Satterberg, Jr., The Law Offices of William R. Satterberg, Jr., Fairbanks, for Appellant.

Daniel E. Winfree, Winfree Law Office, Fairbanks, for Appellee Biscoe.

Before COMPTON, C.J., and MATTHEWS, EASTAUGH, FABE and BRYNER, JJ.


OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

Public access easements are easements reserved by the state to ensure access to state land and water. The question here is whether a dedicated public access easement may be used as an access way for an adjoining private parcel. We answer in the affirmative, because the state had an interest in the adjoining parcel when the easement was created, and the right to use the easement was not destroyed...

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