Young v. Hobbs

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

The central issue presented by this appeal is whether the superior court properly ruled that the parties agreed to a settlement contract.

II. FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS

Dale Young and Marion Hobbs were involved in Wilderness Acquisitions, Inc., a corporation which attempted to build a wilderness lodge on Baranof Island in Southeast Alaska. In the course of the corporation’s dissolution, a number of issues were contested, and eventually litigated, including the issue of ownership of high density polyethylene pipe that had been transported to the Baranof…