# Caterpillar Tractor Co. v. Beck

> Alaska Supreme Court · April 6, 1979 · 593 P.2d 871

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9535677

## Case

- **Full name:** CATERPILLAR TRACTOR CO., Appellant, v. Paula BECK, Appellee; Paula BECK, Cross-Appellant, v. CATERPILLAR TRACTOR CO., Cross-Appellee
- **Court:** Alaska Supreme Court
- **Decided:** April 6, 1979
- **Citations:** 593 P.2d 871; 1979 Alas. LEXIS 502
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Burke
- **Judges:** Boochever, Ra-Binowitz, Connor, Burke, Dimond, Matthews
- **Cited by:** 78 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

BURKE, Justice,
concurring and dissenting.
To the extent that it is not inconsistent with the view expressed in my dissenting opinion in Butaud v. Suburban Marine & Sporting Goods, Inc., 555 P.2d 42, 47 (Alaska 1976), I agree with and join in the separate opinion of my esteemed colleague, Senior Justice Dimond. Thus, I dissent from the majority’s approval of the trial court’s instructions on the issue of comparative negligence.
In all other respects I concur.

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