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  • Nash v. Parker

    38 Me. 489 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1854

    Cutler v. Thurlo, 20 Maine, 213. … Briggs v. Wilkinson, 7 Barn. & Cres. 30. “ The party for whose profit the ship is in reality employed at the time, has the benefit of the work done on board, and is liable to the tradesman who does it.” Reeve v.

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  • Grant v. Jack

    116 Me. 342 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Oct 20, 1917

    In People v. Storrs, 207 N. Y., 147 , 45 L. R. A. (N. … Levy v. Rust, N. J., Eq., 49 Atl., 1017 , 1025, State v. Freshwater, 30 Utah, 442 , 85 Pac., 447 , and Huber Mfg. Co. v. Claudel, 71 Kan., 441 , 80 Pac. 960 .

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  • Swasey v. Chapman

    155 Me. 408 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Nov 13, 1959

    Fiduciary Trust Co. v. Brown, et al., 152 Me. 360 , 131 A. (2nd) 191; Gannett, et al. v. Old Colony Trust Co., 155 Me. 248 , 153 A. (2nd) 122. … Stewart v.

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  • Anthem Health Plans of Maine, Inc. v. Superintendent of Insurance

    18 A.3d 824 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 21, 2011

    Brown, Esq., Brown & Burke, Portland, ME, Kay Noonan, Esq., General Counsel, Kansas City, MO, for amicus curiae National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Joseph P. Ditré, Esq., Mia S. … No. 37 v.

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  • Emerson v. Shores

    95 Me. 237 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 10, 1901

    Buker v. Bowden, 83 Maine, 69 ; Banton v. Shorey, 77 Maine, 48 ; Russell v. Richards, 10 Maine, 429; Folsom v. Moore, 19 Maine, 252; Brown v. Dodge, 32 Maine, 167; Drake v. Wells, 11 Allen, 141 ; Giles v. … In Drake v.

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  • Parkman v. Freeman

    121 Me. 341 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 5, 1922

    Foster v. Foss, 77 Maine, 280. … Whitmore v. Brown, 100 Maine, 410, 413.

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  • Bond Builders, Inc. v. Commercial Union Insurance

    670 A.2d 1388 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Mar 13, 1996

    See Li v. C.N. … Brown Co., 645 A.2d 606, 607 (Me.1994) (the exclusivity and immunity provisions of the Workers’ Compensation Act bar employees from pursuing civil litigation against their employers for injuries sustained in the course of

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  • Steel Service Center v. Prince MacAroni Mfg. Co.

    438 A.2d 881 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 22, 1981

    See Porges v. Reid, Me., 423 A.2d 542, 544 (1980). … See Board of Overseers of the Bar v. Lee, Me., 422 A.2d 998, 1005 (1980).

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  • Good Will Home Association v. Erwin

    266 A.2d 218 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 17, 1970

    Anderson et al. v. Frost et al., (1951) 146 Me. 270 , 80 A.2d 407 . … In all the catalogs the Hinckley School is described as “a co-educational college preparatory boarding school for approximately 160 students in grades 8 through 12.” *220 For the academic year 1969-70 the boarding tuition

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  • Carter v. Bradley

    19 Me. 62 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 15, 1841

    The instructions first given by the Judge, are fully sustained by the case of Page v. Webster, 15 Maine, R. 249, to which we refer. … The messenger, Ilsley, understood the notice to have been made out for the defendant, and accordingly left it for him with the keeper of the public house, where he boarded. Mr.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Perry v. Inhabitants of Town of Lincolnville

    149 Me. 173 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Aug 28, 1953

    Stickney v. Bangor, 30 Me. 404 ; Terminal Company v. City of Portland, 129 Me. 264 ; Hemingway v. Machias, 33 Me. 445 ; Gilpatrick v. … The power to abate taxes in the first instance is in the Board of Assessors upon application therefor.

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  • Wilson v. Lacroix

    111 Me. 324 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 18, 1913

    Certificates of election were issued by the old board of mayor and aldermen, acting as a canvassing board, to Charles G. English as alderman and J. E. Ballard, M. Sullivan and Ferdinand Ebert as councilmen. … Davis v. Davis, 61 Maine, 395; Blodgett v. Dow, 81 Maine, 197; Corey v. Independent Ice Co., 106 Maine, 485, and cases cited.

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  • Preble v. Maine Central Railroad

    21 L.R.A. 829 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jan 17, 1893

    Brown v. Gay, 3 Maine, 126 ; Ross v. Gould, 5 Maine, 204 ; Lincoln v. Edgecomb, 31 Maine, 345 ; Worcester v. Lord, 56 Maine 266 ; Dow v. McKenuey, 64 Maine, 138. … Hitchings v. Morrison, 72 Maine 331 , is a pertinent illustration of this principle. See also, Abbott v. Abbott, 51 Maine, 575; Ricker v. Hibbard, 73 Maine, 105.

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  • State v. Duguay

    158 Me. 61 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Feb 20, 1962

    Street Railway, 101 Me. 591 , 65 A. 20 ; Rioux v. Portland Water District, 132 Me. 307 , 170 A. 63 ; State v. Brown, 129 Me. 169 , 151 A. 9 ; York v. Wyman, 115 Me. 353 , 98 A. 1024 . … “A I took just about two steps toward the cup-' board and I had the gun this way. (Indicating with arms) *78 “Q Where were you looking then? “A Down at the cupboard. “Q What happened then?

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  • Knight v. Dunbar

    83 Me. 359 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 9, 1891

    The plaintiff had erected a close board-fence on a part of the line between them. … This view is well sustained by the reasoning and result, upon somewhat similar facts, in the case of Hatch v. Allen, 27 Maine, 85. Exceptions overruled. Walton, Virgin, Libbey, Emery and Foster, JJ., concurred.

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  • Monroe v. Clark

    107 Me. 134 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Sep 28, 1910

    The doors and windows may be made at the shop, the boards may be sawed and planed at the mill, or the iron work done at the blacksmith shop. These processes are all a part of the erection of the building. … Webster v. Real Estate Improvement Co., 140 Mass. 526 .

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  • Belfast Water District v. Larrabee

    570 A.2d 828 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Feb 27, 1990

    Richardson v. Richardson, 146 Me. 145 , 78 A.2d 505 (1951); Young v. Braman, 105 Me. 494, 497 , 75 A. 120 (1909). … Brown, 33 Me. 309, 314 (1851), and earlier cases applying a different rule with reference to private ways, is simply not applicable in relation to discontinued public ways.

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  • Hilton v. Walker

    56 Me. 70 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1868

    S., c. 82, § 94; Ellis v. Whittier, 37 Maine, 548. It does not appear that this action should have been brought before a justice; so R. S., c. 82, § 97, is not applicable. Hathorn v. Cate, 5 Greenl., 74. … See also Lawrence v. Ford, 41 Maine, 430; Chesley v. Brown, 11 Maine, 140. Per Gn/riam. —-The question raised in this ease is settled in the decision made in Hilton v. Walker. Babkows and Tapucv, JJ., dissented..

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  • Bowie v. Landry

    150 Me. 239 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Oct 13, 1954

    The mainly disputed question was upon whose land the trees were cut, whether the plaintiff’s or the defendant’s, and the number of board feet contained in the trees and the value thereof. … See Cobb v. Coggswell, 111 Me. 336 ; Sanford v. Kimball, 108 Me. 355 ; Lewis v. Railroad Co., 97 Me. 340 ; Stone v. Street Railway, 99 Me. 243 ; Atkinson v. Orneville, 96 Me. 311 .

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  • Wilson & Son v. Harrisburg

    107 Me. 207 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Oct 11, 1910

    Brown v. Chadbourne, 31 Maine, 9 ; Pearson v. Rolfe, 76 Maine, 380, and cases cited. … In Gerrish v.

    Cited 7 timesPublished

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