Ficke v. Alaska Airlines, Inc.

OPINION

ERWIN, Justice.

This appeal concerns the specific performance of an agreement for the purchase of land, a hotel, swimming pool, health club and related personalty by Alyeska Resort, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alaska Airlines, Inc., from C. Bruce Ficke. The terms of the contract and the facts of this controversy are complex because the agreement also attempted to resolve claims which had matured in the course of a prior contract to build and lease the hotel.

When negotiations for the purchase commenced in 1969, Alyeska Ski Corporation (hereinafter “Alyeska”) was occupying the…