Legal Opinion
State v. Hammer
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided May 24, 1976No. 2500, 2660PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BURKE, Justice.
This appeal raises a question of first impression concerning the state’s obligation to compensate the owner of a business for damage done to that business by the state’s exercise of its powers of eminent domain.
In May, 1973, the State of Alaska filed a complaint under AS 09.55.240, et seq., against certain lands in Petersburg, Alaska, which were in the path of the Peters-burg Highway. One of these parcels was owned by appellee Hammer; on it stood a two story building, the first floor of which was leased by appellee Kito’s Kave, Inc., a bar business owned by Richard Kito. While…
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