United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co. v. Local Boundary Commission

RABINOWITZ, Justice.

In this appeal we are asked to decide numerous questions generated by the role the Local Boundary Commission played in the annexation by the city of Nome of United States Smelting’s properties. We have determined that the superior court’s order dismissing United States Smelting’s action for declaratory judgment should be reversed with directions to enter a declaratory judgment decreeing the annexation in question to be invalid and of no effect.

Alaskan municipalities may gain territory in various ways. The city of Nome sought to do so through the Local Boundary Commission.…