Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. v. O'KELLEY

OPINION

BURKE, Justice.

This appeal and cross-appeal arise from a sales contract action. The case involves issues of contract interpretation, the exclusion of evidence on grounds of lack of relevance, and the propriety of refusing to give an instruction on punitive damages.

In the summer of 1976, Lee O’Kelley learned of the existence of surplus plywood crates in “section four” of the pipeline, the portion of the pipeline extending from near Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay. The crates had been used to ship pipe insulation material. Each crate was approximately eight feet-eight inches wide by six feet…