Willis v. City of Valdez

OPINION

RABINO WITZ, Justice.

This appeal arises from two quiet title actions, consolidated, involving lands within U. S. Survey No. 455 located in the area of Valdez, Alaska. The heirs of George Love claim ownership of lands in U. S. Survey No. 455, pursuant to the United States Patent issued to George Love in 1910 under soldiers’ additional homestead entry scrips. 1 The city of Valdez claims an interest in Lot 32, Block 37, First Division, through a deed dated August 25, 1971, from Andrew Engstrom, which is in the chain of title stemming from a 1907 quitclaim deed from George Love to North…