Alaska Supreme Court
Daniel S. Anderson, Alison Anderson, Stephen T. Lewis, Gerald Robert Lee, Terrence S. Valentine, Sally J. Valentine…
August 30, 2024555 P.3d 13
Summary
The court affirmed the superior court's determination that the northern landowners had no public easement across the Wilsons' property, including under RS 2477, plat dedication, prescription, implication, necessity, or estoppel theories. Although the Wilsons properly prevailed on the principal public-easement issue and could receive an enhanced fee award based on complexity and bad faith, the court vacated the attorney-fee award because the billing records and hourly rates were not adequately supported and included potentially unrelated work. The court remanded for recalculation of fees consistent with those requirements.