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  • Curtis v. Potter

    114 Me. 487 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Mar 11, 1916

    Green v. Lunt, 58 Maine, 518; Bowler v. *493 Brown, 84 Maine, 376; Mason v. Belfast Hotel Co., 89 Maine, 384. The cases cited by the defendant are not in conflict with these decisions. 3. Illegal warrant. … The words “actual expense of brown-tail moths” are interlined above the total. No sum is carried out.

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  • Roque Island Gardner Homestead Corporation v. Town of Jonesport

    2021 ME 21 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 8, 2021

    BACKGROUND [¶2] The facts are drawn from the supported factual findings of the State Board and the BOA, and from the corresponding administrative records. See Grant v. … See Roque Island Gardner Homestead Corp. v.

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  • Tremblay v. Kimball

    107 Me. 53 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Sep 1, 1910

    Snelling, 14 Allen 290 ; Brown v. Marshall, 47 Mich. 576 . … As observed by Judge Cooley in Brown v. Marshall, 47 Mich. 576 , "The case it must be conceded is one in which a very high degree of care may justly be required.

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  • Inhabitants of Solon v. Perry

    54 Me. 493 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1867

    the overseers of the poor of Norridgewock and claimed of them pay for said Eaton’s board. … So, assumpsit upon an implied promise will lie by a creditor to recover of his debtor the amount he has paid the jailer for his board while imprisoned on the creditor’s execution. Plummer v.

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  • State Tax Assessor v. Kraft Foods Group, Inc.

    235 A.3d 837 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 4, 2020

    ruling of the Assessor or the Board.” … Woolworth Co. v. Taxation & Revenue Dep’t, 458 U.S. 354, 364-66 (1982) and Exxon Corp. v. Dep’t of Revenue, 447 U.S. 207, 224-25 (1980)).

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  • Drummond v. Churchill

    17 Me. 325 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 15, 1840

    Brown v. Gammon, 14 Maine R. *327 276. No tender was proved, and no facts appear in the case, which would dispense with its necessity. Exceptions overruled.

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  • Erica Brooks v. Town of Bar Harbor

    2024 ME 21 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Mar 26, 2024

    v. … .”); Rainey v.

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  • Paterson v. Town of St. Albans

    552 A.2d 549 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jan 11, 1989

    Albans Planning Board issued a building permit to Clarence and Sophia Paterson’s neighbor, and the Board of Appeals upheld its actions. … See Milos v. Northport Village Corp., 453 A.2d 1178, 1180 (Me.1983). The entry is: Judgment affirmed. All concurring.

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  • Tremblay v. Murphy

    111 Me. 38 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Aug 6, 1913

    In Curran v. … V., 616.

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  • State v. Robinson

    85 Me. 147 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 1, 1892

    Commonwealth v. Hines, 101 Mass. 33 ; Commonwealth v. Smith, 108 Mass. 486 ; Commonwealth v. Brown, 116 Mass. 339 . We see no reason why the same doctrine should not be held in this State. Exceptions overruled.

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  • Pejepscot Paper Co. v. Town of Lisbon

    127 Me. 161 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · May 14, 1928

    Metropolitan Water Board v. Avery, (1914) A.C. 118, Ann.Cas. 1914D, 556. … Colley’s Patents v. Metropolitan Water Board, (1912) A.C. 24, Ann. Cas. 1912B, 617.

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  • Tobey v. Poulin

    141 Me. 58 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Aug 22, 1944

    Files v. Brown, 124 Fed., 133, 138 ; In re Denison, 114 N. Y., 621 , 21 N. E., 97 ; Yount v. Fagin, et al. (Texas Civ. A) 244 S. W., 1036, 1041 ; 53 Corpus Juris, 212. … Jur., Judicial Sales, §249 et seq.; Mount v. Brown, 33 Miss., 566 , 69 American Decisions, 362n; 35 Corpus Juris, 118 and cases cited; Howison v. Oakley, 118 Ala., 215 , 23 So. 810 ; Mariners Savings Bank v.

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  • Opinion of the Justices

    261 A.2d 58 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jan 15, 1970

    In Board of Education v. … I look first to the opinion in Board of Education v.

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  • Gillespie v. Town of Southwest Harbor

    675 A.2d 501 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 25, 1996

    Foley v. Adam, 638 A.2d 718, 719 (Me.1994). There is no dispute that Gillespie has shown the first two elements of a claim for unjust enrichment. … Gillespie correctly notes that this case is controlled by our recent decisions in A.F.A.B., Inc. v. Town of Old Orchard Beach, 639 A.2d 103 (Me.1994), and Aladdin Elec. Assoc. v.

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  • In Re Reben

    342 A.2d 688 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 18, 1975

    Brown, 1891, 84 Me. 82 , 24 A. 672 ; Perkins v. … Registered women voters to notify registration board of change in surname.

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  • Buswell v. Bicknell

    17 Me. 344 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 15, 1840

    Seymour v. Brown, 19 Johns. 47 , may seem in its application to be an exception to--this principle; but Chancellor Kent says, that this decision was'not in- conformity to the true' and settled doctrine. 2 Kent, 589. … If he neither pays-nor returns, he-is liable to an action.- *347 In Holbrook v.

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  • Elms v. Crane

    118 Me. 261 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Oct 7, 1919

    Yeager, were boarding with the witness, Laura E. Hatch, and the defendant was occupying a summer cottage owned by her mother. … She confessed she had lied to me about the board. She tells me she has only $14 left and Mrs.

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  • Town of Thomaston v. Bureau of Taxation

    490 A.2d 1180 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 1, 1985

    See Kittery Electric Light Co. v. Assessors of the Town of Kittery, 219 A.2d 728, 734 (Me.1966). … Kelley v. Halperin, 390 A.2d 1078, 1080 (Me.1978).

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  • Bradburg v. Segal

    121 Me. 146 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Feb 24, 1922

    In Emery v. Prescott, quoted in Wing v. … In Brown v.

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  • Durepos v. Town of Van Buren

    516 A.2d 565 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Oct 24, 1986

    Napolitano v. Ward, 317 F.Supp. 79, 81 (N.D.Ill.1970); see also Safransky v. State Personnel Board, 62 Wis.2d 464, 474 , 215 N.W.2d 379, 384 (1974) (“just cause”). … Hammond v. Temporary Compensation Review Board, 473 A.2d 1267, 1271 (Me.1984).

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