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  • Jacques v. City of Auburn

    622 A.2d 1174 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 8, 1993

    We review the Planning Board’s action directly. Mayberry v. Town of Old Orchard Beach, 599 A.2d 1153, 1154 (Me.1991). I. … Chandler v. Town of Pittsfield, 496 A.2d 1058 (Me.1985).

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  • Austin v. State

    663 A.2d 62 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Aug 11, 1995

    That conclusion was based on Gilbert v. … and (ii) was not within the statutory authority of the Parole Board at the time it was granted.”

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  • Thomas v. Thomas

    96 Me. 223 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Feb 28, 1902

    In Pullen v. … And in Gilman v.

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  • Davis v. Briggs

    117 Me. 536 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 19, 1918

    But as to the *539 manner of creating an easement, it was declared in Brown v. … In Watson v.

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  • Sawyer v. Thayer

    70 Me. 340 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Nov 5, 1879

    Myrick v. Anderson, 68 E. C. L., 719. An executor de son tort is to be declared against as if he were the lawful executor, though the party died intestate. Brown v. Leavitt, 6 Foster, 495 . … Shaw v. Hallihan, 46 Vt. 389 . The executor de son tort may He sued and treated as the rightful executor. Stockton v Wilson, 3 Penn. 129 . Such has been the rule in this state. Allen v. Kimball, 15 Maine, 116 White v.

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  • Harris v. Barker

    87 Me. 270 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Mar 1, 1895

    Bray v. Libby, 71 Maine, 276; Brown v. Neale, 3 Allen, 74 ; Simeon v. Cramm, 121 Mass. 492 . Even greater strictness prevails in New Hampshire. Parsons v. Shorey, 48 N. H. 550.

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  • Freeman v. Rankins

    21 Me. 446 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 15, 1842

    Walcot v. Pomeroy, 2 Pick. 121 ; Lunt v. Brown, 1 Shepl. 236.

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  • Driggin v. Town of Wells

    509 A.2d 1171 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · May 27, 1986

    We consider the holdings made by this Court in the case of Ullis v. … Driscoll v. Gheewalla, 441 A.2d 1023, 1026 (Me.1982).

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  • Sch. Admin. Dist. 27 v. Employees Ret. Sys.

    983 A.2d 391 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Nov 5, 2009

    The party seeking to overturn the Board's action bears the burden of persuasion on appeal. Zegel v. … Co. v.

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  • Hottentot v. Mid-Maine Medical Center

    549 A.2d 365 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Oct 21, 1988

    Board of Surgery examination, a physician must first serve a residency program approved by that Board. … See Hull v.

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  • Inhabitants of Marion v. Tuell

    111 Me. 566 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · May 5, 1914

    Co. v. Norwalk, 37 Conn., 109 . Upon this theory of the law that a town has no right to create a nuisance, the principle laid down in Brown v. Perkins et al., 12 Gray, 89 , must control this class of cases. Shaw, C. … This theory of the law was followed in Mann v. Marston, 12 Maine, 32, and in Hamilton v. Goding, 55 Maine, 419, in which the language of Brown v. Perkins is cited with approval. In Corthell v.

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  • Mueller v. Penobscot Valley Hospital

    538 A.2d 294 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Mar 8, 1988

    See Corbitt v. Andersen, 778 F.2d 1471, 1474-75 (10th Cir.1985) (applying Paul v. Davis in an action factually similar to the instant case); see also Board of Regents v. … Examples of courts holding notice provisions are inapplicable to § 1983 actions: Brown v.

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  • Davis v. Winslow

    51 Me. 264 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1863

    In Brown v. … In Brown v. Watson, 47 Maine, 161, the defendant obstructed the public highway by wantonly felling trees across it. In these, and the other case?

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  • Wright v. Holmes

    100 Me. 508 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Nov 22, 1905

    Swift had given the defendant this property by will, the husband nevertheless might have waived the will and received a distributive share, and he cites upon this point Jones v. Brown, 34 N. H. 439;. Baker v. … Brown v. Crafts, 98 Maine, 40; Thayer v. Thayer, 14 Vt. 107 ; Walker v. Walker, 66 N. H. 390; Hays v. Henry, 1 Md. Ch. 337 ; Dunnock v. Dunnock, 3 Md. Ch. 140 ; Tucker v. Tucker, 29 Mo. 350 ; Brown v.

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  • Deake

    80 Me. 50 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jan 17, 1888

    Brown) then about twenty years of age, while looking over some old letters and other papers at her uncle George’s, took among others what now purports to be a holographic will of her grandfather, (Benjamin Deake) the purport … Brown unwittingly left it. The will is quite lengthy, untechnically drawn, and phonelical in its orthography; but the intention of the testator is not left in doubt.

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  • Richmond v. Foss

    77 Me. 590 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 12, 1885

    Can a seller recover the price of boards and shingles sold and delivered without a survey by some proper officer ? This point is determined against the plaintiff by the case of Durgin v. Dyer, 68 Maine, 143. … Abbott v. Goodwin, 37 Maine, 203 ; Rogers v. Humphrey, 39 Maine, 382. These cases stood in their day on the outermost verge of the law on which they were decided.

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  • Page v. Page

    671 A.2d 956 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Feb 23, 1996

    Salenius v. Salenius, 654 A.2d 426 , 428 n. 4 (Me.1995). This case requires us to reiterate our holding in Transamerica Commercial Fin. Co. v. … Fuller, 524 A.2d 1221 , 1222 n. 1 (Me.1987); but see Harbour v. Brown, 732 S.W.2d 598, 600 (Tenn.1987).

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  • Pattangall v. Gilman

    115 Me. 344 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Oct 29, 1916

    Curtis, appointed the said Henry Gilman as a member of said board of dental examiners, to fill the vacancy in *346 said board arising by reason of the expiration of the term of office of the relator, Will S. … As said by the court in State v.

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  • Matheson v. Bangor Publishing Co.

    414 A.2d 1203 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · May 28, 1980

    See Blackwell v. State, Me., 311 A.2d 536, 537 (1973); Johnson v. Maine Wetlands Control Board, Me., 250 A.2d 825, 827 (1969), and cases cited therein. … It is true that in Collett v.

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  • Howes v. Tolman

    63 Me. 258 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1873

    The report shows that the jailer called upon the creditor for payment for the defendant’s board both before and after the notice of October 26, and that it was furnished. We remark: I. … Spring v. Davis, 36 Maine, 399. We presume that the judge at nisi prius based his ruling upon such a finding.

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