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YUKON EQUIPMENT v. FIREMAN'S FUND INS. CO.

No. 3308.

585 P.2d 1206 (1978)

YUKON EQUIPMENT, INC., an Alaska Corporation, and E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company, a Delaware Corporation, Petitioners, v. FIREMAN'S FUND INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

November 3, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore M. Pease, Jr., J.W. Sedwick, Burr, Pease & Kurtz, Inc., Anchorage, for petitioners.

Richard N. Sutliff, Hagans, Smith, Brown, Erwin & Gibbs, Timothy M. Lynch, Abbott, Lynch, Farney & Rodey, LeRoy DeVeaux, Wanamaker & DeVeaux, Joseph M. Huddleston, Hughes, Thorsness, Gantz, Powell & Brundin, and Robert N. Opland, Opland & Johnston, Anchorage, for respondents.

Before BOOCHEVER, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ.

OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

A large explosion occurred at 2:47 a.m. on December 7, 1973, in the suburbs north of the city of Anchorage. The explosion originated at a storage magazine for explosives under lease from the federal government to petitioner E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, which was operated by petitioner Yukon Equipment, Inc. The storage magazine is located on a 1,870 acre tract of federal land which had been withdrawn by the Department of...

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