Legal Opinion
Power Constructors, Inc. v. Taylor & Hintze
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided June 19, 1998No. S-7033, S-7123 and S-7124PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRYNER, Justice.
I. INTRODUCTION
A four-million-dollar powerline construction project gone awry spawned two generations of litigation. The first, a suit by the general contractor, Power Constructors, Inc. (PCI), against the project engineer and project designer, languished in court for three years, died for lack of prosecution, and was laid to rest in Power Constructors, Inc. v. Acres American, 811 P.2d 1052 (Alaska 1991). The second, a legal malpractice action by PCI against its former attorneys, matured to a jury verdict for PCI that the trial court found less favorable than the defendants’…
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