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  • Bok v. Northeast Health

    599 A.2d 815 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 16, 1991

    board of incorporators for the parent and to provide more control over and integration of the subsidiaries’ boards of trustees. … See Luce Co. v. Hoefler, 464 A.2d 213, 215 (Me.1983).

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  • Hamilton v. Goding

    55 Me. 419 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1867

    Preston v. Drew, ubi supra; Brown v. Perkins, 12 Gray, 89 . We do not question the right of the Legislature to determine what shall be regarded as a nuisance. … We do not question the soundness of the views taken by the Court in the above case of Brown v. Perkins .

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  • Inhabitants of Orono v. Kappa Sigma Society

    108 Me. 320 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 18, 1911

    Both the plaintiff and the defendant rely upon Orono v. Sigma Alpha Epsilon Society, 105 Maine, 214. A comparison of that case with the case at bar is decisive of this case. … The legal title to the property was in the University of Maine ; but, as said by the court in Orono v.

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  • Shawmut Manufacturing Co. v. Town of Benton

    123 Me. 121 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Aug 30, 1923

    Lowell v. Robinson, 16 Maine, 357; Pike v. Munroe, 36 Maine, 309; Wilson v. Harrisburg, 107 Maine, 207. Township boundaries are construed in like manner. Perkins v. Oxford, supra. … These boards go on in the discharge of duty as each sees it to do amid changing conditions.

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  • Perry v. Curtis

    148 Me. 438 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Mar 12, 1953

    Wolf v. W. S. Jordan Co., 146 Me. 374 , 82 Atl. (2nd) 93; Levesque v. Pelletier, 144 Me. 245 , 68 Atl. (2nd) 9. … Adams v. Ketchum, 129 Me. 212 , 151 Atl. 146 ; Young v. Witham, 75 Me. 536 . See also opinion by Justice Merrill in Sears, Roebuck v.

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  • Bernier v. Cabot Manufacturing Co.

    71 Me. 506 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 17, 1880

    It was therefore held in Hill v. … Doyle v. Dixon, 97 Mass. 212 . It is clear that, under this rule, no action could have been maintained on the verbal contract set up in defence.

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  • Dumont v. Commissioner, Department of Human Services

    589 A.2d 938 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 18, 1991

    The grant was premised on a projected total need of $7,203 for the entire school year, and included the following components: room, board, and other — $5,400; tuition and fees — $1,303; books and supplies— $500. … The AFDC regulations applicable to the present case permit states to add certain special needs items to the basic standard. 45 C.F.R. § 283.20 (a)(2)(v)(1988).

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  • BCN Telecom, Inc. v. State Tax Assessor

    151 A.3d 497 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Nov 8, 2016

    Camp Walden v. … Indoor Billboard/Wash., Inc. v.

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  • Frothingham v. Mckusick

    24 Me. 403 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 15, 1844

    And, as the -law is settled in this State, (Smith v. Goodwin, 2 Greenl. 173) whoever cut and carried it way, without authority from them, was a trespasser; and could thereby acquire no property in it. … The defendant, as he proved by his witness, Royal McKusick, and, as he admitted, sawed and manufactured into boards six hundred and fifty thousand feet of the timber.

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  • Moore v. Durgin

    68 Me. 148 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 3, 1878

    Van Shaack v. Robbins, 36 Iowa, 201 . Brown v. Brown, 50 N. H. 538, 552. Kearney v. Vaughan, 50 Mo. 284 , Pearsoll v. Chapin, 44 Pa. St. 9. Seglar v. Carson, 69 Pa. St. 81, 87, 88. … But, as observed by Patterson, J., in Wheeler v. Whiting, 9 Car. & P. 262, the taking into custody without a warrant is a different thing. See, also, Howell v.

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  • Burnham v. Dorr

    72 Me. 198 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 14, 1881

    In Bartlett v. … Brown v.

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  • McAvity v. Lincoln Pulp & Paper Co.

    82 Me. 504 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Mar 28, 1890

    Phillips v. Vose, 81 Maine, 134; Re Murdoch, 1 Low. 362 ; Re Fortune, 1 Low. 384 ; Re Brown, 3 B. R. 720 . … Sawyer v. Upton, 91 U. S. 60 ; Hatch v. Dana, 101 U. S. 205 .

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  • A.S. v. Lincoln Health

    2021 ME 6 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jan 28, 2021

    See, e.g., Ex parte Brown, 591 S.W.3d 705, 707-08 (Tex. Crim. … State v.

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  • Dunson v. South Portland Housing Authority

    814 A.2d 972 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Feb 7, 2003

    See Cust v. Univ. of Maine, 2001 ME 29, ¶ 10 , 766 A.2d 566, 568-69 . [¶ 7] Section 201(6) was enacted in response to our decision in Ray v. … See Johnson v. S.D. Warren, Div. of Scott Paper Co., 432 A.2d 431, 435 (Me.1981); Kidder v. Coastal Constr.

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  • American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

    102 Me. 72 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Nov 12, 1906

    In Barker et al. v. … As was said in May v.

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  • Richardson v. Maine Loan & Building Ass'n

    136 Me. 522 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 2, 1940

    Jones v. Jones, 101 Me., 447, 64 A., 815 ; Leathers v. Stewart, 108 Me., 96, 79 A., 16 ; Doylestown Agr. Co. v. Brackett, Shaw & Lunt Co., 109 Me., 301, 84 A., 146 . … Nickerson, 108 Me., 341, 80 A., 849 ; Williams v. Sweet, 121 Me., 118, 115 A., 895 ; Brown v. Sanborn, 131 Me., 53, 158 A., 855 ; Bryne v. Bryne et al., 135 Me., 330, 196 A., 402 .

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  • Staples v. Smith

    48 Me. 470 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1861

    Orson v. Storms, 9 Cow., 687 . In Shloss v. … In Lunt v. Brown, 13 Maine, 237, the mare in controversy had been leased' for a specified time.

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  • Inhabitants of York v. Inhabitants of Penobscot

    2 Me. 1 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 15, 1822

    Thomas: — no allusion being made to them in that letter. — See the case of Bangor v. … Augusta, 12 Mass. 307 . and Shutesbury v.

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  • Kneeland v. Fuller

    51 Me. 518 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1863

    Richards v. Allen, 17 Maine, 296; Conglin v. Knowles, 7 Met., 57 ; King v. Welcome, 5 Gray, 41 . … Richards v. Allen, above cited; Thompson v. Gould, 20 Pick., 134 ; King v. Brown, 2 Hill, 485 .

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  • Ketch v. Smith

    128 Me. 171 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · May 24, 1929

    Blodgett v. Dow, 81 Me., 197; Blaisdell v. Inhabitants of York, 117 Me., 379; Merrill v. Regan, 117 Me., 183; Van Buren Light and Power Company v. Inhabitants of Van Buren, 118 Me., 463; Emerson v. … Street Railway, 116 Me., 61; Arsenault *174 v. Brown Company, 122 Me., 52; Edwards v. Seal, 125 Me., 39.

    Cited 3 timesPublished

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