Legal Opinion
West v. Whitney-Fidalgo Seafoods, Inc.
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided May 8, 1981No. 4747PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MATTHEWS, Justice.
The appellant, Julia West, was the owner of a fish scow which she used to store salmon caught in the vicinity of her set net site in Trading Bay on the western shore of Cook Inlet. West’s husband had purchased the scow from appellee, Whitney-Fidalgo Seafoods, Inc., in 1972. Since then it had been stored in the off season at Whitney-Fi-dalgo’s dock in Anchorage.
Prior to 1977, West had sold all the salmon that she caught to Whitney-Fidalgo. In 1977 she decided to sell her catch to Osmar’s Ocean Specialties, Inc., and made an oral contract with Osmar’s to use her scow as…
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