Matanuska Valley Bank v. Abernathy

OPINION

NESBETT, Chief Justice.

These appeals result from litigation which grew out of the purchase by Nona Abernathy and her husband, now deceased, of the Copper Kettle Roadhouse located on the Glenn Highway. At the time of the purchase the property was being foreclosed by the Matanuska Valley Bank, hereinafter referred to as the Bank, against a prior purchaser named Goolsby.

The real property described in the sale agreement executed by the parties was located on both sides of the existing highway. Unknown to both parties at the time they entered into the agreement, Public Land Order No. 1613…