State, Department of Transportation & Public Facilities v. First National Bank of Anchorage

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Justice.

This appeal arises out of an inverse condemnation action filed by the First National Bank of Anchorage (Bank) when the State of Alaska increased the width of the Old Glenn Highway on land owned by the Bank. The superior court granted the Bank’s motion for summary judgment on the issue of liability, concluding that the State possessed an easement only forty feet wide along the roadbed of the Old Glenn Highway. The case was then referred by the superior court to a master for determination of damages. Final judgment was subsequently entered for the Bank. Thereafter the…