Legal Opinion
Peters v. Juneau-Douglas Girl Scout Council
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided March 15, 1974No. 1660, 1661PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Before RABINOWITZ, C. J., and CONNOR and FITZGERALD, JJ. CONNOR, Justice.
The property in dispute is a small' section of breachfront in a protected cove of Tee Harbor, a semi-wilderness area near Juneau, Alaska. 1 Record title to the property is held by the Juneau-Douglas Girl Scout Council. 2 Claiming the property by adverse possession is Willis M. Peters, a 71 year-old Tlingit Indian. 3
At trial, Mr. Peters stated that he first came to Tee Harbor when he was about eight years old. However, his family’s particular interest in the property involved in this dispute dates from 1916. In the…
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