State for Use of Smith v. Tyonek Timber, Inc.

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• holding plaintiff’s lack of privity with alleged tort-feasor precluded recovery for pure economic loss based upon a negligence theory
• favorably citing Moorman Mfg. Co. v. Nat'l Tank Co., 91 Ill.2d 69, 61 Ill.Dec. 746, 435 N.E.2d 443 (1982)
• distinction between property loss and economic loss further explained
• “The Little Miller Act is the stepchild of the Federal Miller Act . . . . The Alaska Act, like the Federal Act, is clearly remedial in nature. There is no question that a remedial statute is to be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes.” (internal citation omitted)

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