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  • Delaware Feed Stores v. FIRST AUBURN TRUST COMPANY

    151 Me. 372 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jan 13, 1956

    The Hines & Smith Co. v. Green, 121 Me. 478, 480 , 118 A. 296, 297 (1922). See also Drummond and Hospital v. Pillsbury, 130 Me. 406 , 156 A. 806 (1931); Davis v. Patrick, 141 U. S. 479 (1891); Duca v. … See also Hammond Coal Co. v. Lewis, 248 Mass. 499 , 143 N. E. 309 (1924).

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  • State v. Doughty

    399 A.2d 1319 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 3, 1979

    See State v. Brown, Me., 321 A.2d 478, 482 (1974), and cases cited; State v. Fitzherbert, Me., 249 A.2d 760, 762 (1969). … State v. Scott, Me., 343 A.2d 177, 178 (1975); State v. Brown, Me., 302 A.2d 322, 324 (1973); State v. Small, Me., 267 A.2d 912, 916 (1970).

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  • Kennedy v. State

    730 A.2d 1252 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · May 28, 1999

    .; see also Cok v. … The District Court concluded that Kennedy had waived her right to a defense in the grievance to the Board for her actions as director of CASA.

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  • Tolman v. Union Mutual Life Insurance

    124 Me. 42 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Sep 6, 1924

    Brown v. Starbird, 98 Maine, 292. … Harrington v. Separator Co., 120 Maine, 388; *45 Brown v. Starbird, supra; Anderson v. Wetter, 103 Maine, 257; also see Derosia v. Ferland, 83 Vermont, 372; Mullaly v. Austin, 97 Mass., 30 ; Dalton v.

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  • Deering v. City of Saco

    68 Me. 322 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 25, 1878

    J., in Harmon v. Jennings, 22 Maine, 240, 242, for declaring that the question not having been raised before the referees, it cannot be entertained now. See also the recent case of Raymond v. Co. … Co. v. Fox, 18 Maine, 117. Brown v. Clay, 31 Maine, 518. Morse v. Morse, 62 Maine, 443. Mitchell v. Dockray, 63 Maine, 82. Exceptions overruled. AppletoN, C. J., Walton, Barrows, Peters and Libbey, JJ., concurred. ■;

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  • State v. Intoxicating Liquors

    82 Me. 558 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · May 29, 1890

    Brown v. State of Maryland, 12 Wheat. 419 . No one but the importer himself has the right to sell, except as allowed by the laws of the state; and he can sell only in the original packages. … v.

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  • Nicholson v. Maine Central Railroad

    97 Me. 43 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 4, 1902

    The further objection that the approval of the location by the county commissioners was not signed by the different members of the board, is also untenable. The board of county commissioners is a court (Chapman v. … There is no law requiring the signatures of the members of the board to be subscribed to their judgments or appended to their records.

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  • Ford v. County Commissioners

    64 Me. 408 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1874

    Hyde v. Middlesex, 2 Gray, 267 ; Brown v. Worcester, 13 Gray, 31 . … J., in Central Bridge Corporation v.

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  • Delta Kappa Epsilon Theta Chapter v. Theta Chapter House Corp.

    661 A.2d 1152 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 28, 1995

    Kelly v. Michaud’s Ins. Agency, Inc., 651 A.2d 345, 347 (Me.1994). M.R.Civ.P. 15 provides in pertinent part: (a) Amendments. ... … See Hall v. Merrill Trust Co., 106 Me. 465, 471 , 76 A. 926 (1910); Oceanic Exploration Co. v. Grynberg, 428 A.2d 1 , *1154 6 (Del.1981).

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  • Knox v. Chaloner

    42 Me. 150 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1856

    It was decided, in Brown v. … (Coales v. New York, 7 Cow. 558 , 600; Mills v. Hall, 9 Wend. 315 .)”

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  • Merrill Trust Co. v. State

    417 A.2d 435 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 21, 1980

    The State appealed from the 1973 award of the Land Damage Board (now the State Claims Board — see P. … This statutory provision at all times material to these proceedings provided in pertinent part as follows: The department or any party or parties aggrieved by an award of the Land Damage Board [now the State Claims Board

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  • Norcross v. Norcross

    53 Me. 163 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1865

    Shaw v. Berry, 31 Maine, 479; Mason v. Thompson, 9 Pick., 280 . … In Clute v.

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  • Gooding v. Morgan

    37 Me. 419 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1854

    This is, what distinguishes the cases of Dole v. Hayden, 1 Greenl. 152, and of Whitcomb v. Williams, 4 Pick. 228 , from the cases cited by defendant’s counsel. … Parker v. Emery, 28 Maine, 492; Babcock v. Thompson, 3 Pick. 446 ; Smith v. Kirby, 10 Met. 150 ; Brown v. Williams, 4 Wend. 360 ; Starkweather v. Kittle, 17 Wend. 20 .

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  • State v. Newbegin

    25 Me. 500 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 15, 1846

    Rex v. Brown, 2 East’s P. C. 487. Yet Baron Bolland held that the lifting of such a door, while newly placed and without the fastenings intended to be made, was not a breaking. Rex v. Lawrence, 4 C. & P. 231. … Commonwealth v. Stephenson, 8 Pick. 354 .

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  • Hutchins v. Inhabitants of Penobscot

    120 Me. 281 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · May 10, 1921

    The court held that a needy person might be succored, by another individual at his *285 town’s expense, after notice and request to one member of a board of not less than three overseers. Newbit v. … Moore v. Maine Central Railroad Company, 106 Maine, 297, 307; Railroad Company v. Jones, 95 U. S., 439 . A good definition of negligence is given by Judge Cooley.

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  • Opinion of the Justices

    437 A.2d 597 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Aug 27, 1981

    See Sawyer v. Beal, 97 Me. 356, 357-58 , 54 A. 848, 848 (1903); Barrows v. McDermott, 73 Me. 441 , 447—48 (1882). See also Boston Waterfront Development Corp. v. … Contrary to some intimations in Moor v.

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  • Drew v. Livermore

    40 Me. 266 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1885

    Johns v. Church, 12 Pick. 557 ; Robinson v. Mansfield, 13 Pick. 144 ; Burseley v. Hamilton, 15 Pick. 40 ; Sawyer v. Mason, 19 Maine, 49 ; Penobscot Boom Cor. v. Wilkins, 27 Maine, 345. … Brown v. Atwell, 31 Maine, 351. The suit of Ross v. Cleland, does not appear to have been prosecuted as a lien claim; that fact, however, does not affect the rights of the parties in this case.

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  • Bailey v. City of Lewiston

    168 A.3d 762 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 20, 2017

    Hird v. … See State v.

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  • Brann v. Inhabitants of Vassalboro'

    50 Me. 64 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1862

    S., c. 108, § 7; Peterson v. Loring, 1 Maine, 64; Short v. Pratt, 6 Mass., 496 . … If it were so, this report does not purport to be certified by the board of referees, nor by the chairman in behalf of the board.

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  • Bangor Spiritualist Church, Inc. v. Littlefield

    330 A.2d 793 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jan 16, 1975

    Blue Rock Industries v. Raymond International, Inc., 325 A.2d 66, 73 (Me.1974); Jacobs v. Boomer, 267 A.2d 376 (Me.1970). … Mount Zion Baptist Church v. Second Baptist Church, supra; Padgett v. Verner, 51 Tenn.App. 285 , 366 S.W.2d 545 (1963); McDaniel v. Quakenbush, 249 N.C. 31 , 105 S.E.2d 94 (1958); State Bank of Wilbur v.

    Cited 9 timesPublished

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