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  • Inhabitants of Wells v. County Commissioners

    79 Me. 522 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Nov 29, 1887

    Harkness v. Co. Com. 26 Maine, 353; Windham v. Co. Com. 26 Maine, 406, 410; King v. Lewiston, 70 Maine, 406; Acton v. Co. Com. 77 Maine, 128. 2. … To be sure, it does not contain the words " county commissioners,” and hence does not in direct, express terms, authorize that board eo nomine to make the location, as the Spec.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • State v. Demerritt

    149 Me. 380 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 30, 1953

    State v. King, 123 Me. 256 ; State v. Beane, 146 Me. 328 ; State v. … State v. Boynton, 143 Me. 313 ; State v. Thompson, 143 Me. 326 .

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Gross' Case

    132 Me. 59 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · May 4, 1933

    Penn. v. Spiers & Pond, Ltd. (1908), 1 K. B., 766; Great Northern Railway v. Dawson (1905), 1 K. B., 331; *61 Knott v. Tingle Jacobs & Co., 4 B. W. C. C., 55. … Co. v. Helps (1918), A. C., 141, Ann. Cas., 1918B, 1120.

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Inhabitants of South Thomaston v. Inhabitants of Friendship

    95 Me. 201 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 1, 1901

    Fogg v. Greene, 16 Maine, 282; Bangor Boom Corp. v. Whitney, 29 Maine, 123; Towle v. Blake, 38 Maine, 528; Goodwin v. Clark, 65 Maine, 280; Soule v. Bruce, 67 Maine, 584. … Bowdoinham v. Phippsburg, 63 Maine, 501; Ripley v. Hebron, supra; No. Yarmouth v. W. Gardiner, supra; Etna v. Brewer, 78 Maine, 377. *209 In Ripley v.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Cole v. Fickett

    95 Me. 265 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 19, 1901

    Andrews v. Andrews, 81 Maine, 339; Cross v. Bean, 81 Maine, 529. As this suit is not between the parties to the deed to Fred E. … Pomeroy’s Equity, § 981; De Riemer v. De Cantillon, 4 Johns. Ch. 90 ; Perry on Trusts, § 186; Gillespie v. Moon, 2 Johns. Ch. 585 ; Brown v. Lamphear, 35 Vt. 252 ; Loss v. Obrey, 7 C. E. Green, 52; Farley v.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Ly v. Lafortune

    832 A.2d 757 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Oct 14, 2003

    The process for challenging the City’s alleged failure to act on an applica *759 tion for a tax abatement would be a timely appeal to the City’s Board of Assessment Review followed by an appeal to the Superior Court in accordance … Bank v.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Inhabitants of Palmyra v. Waverly Woolen Co.

    99 Me. 134 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 9, 1904

    National Fibre Board Company v. Lewiston & Auburn Electric Light Company, 95 Maine, 318, 321. … China v. Southwick, 12 Maine, 238; Smith v. Agawam Candi Co., 2 Allen, 355.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Miller v. Liberty Insurance Company

    161 Me. 438 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Oct 27, 1965

    Jernigan v. New Amsterdam Casualty Company et al 367 P. 2d. 519, [14] 525 (N.M. 1961). See also Everett v. O’Leary, 95 N.W. 901, 902 (Minn. 1903); Brown v. … Co. of Alabama v. Carlton, 184 So. 171 , [1, 3] 172 (Ala. 1938); and Mansfield v.

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • State v. Wellman

    83 Me. 282 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 6, 1891

    Hallock v. Franklin, 2 Met. 559 . … Millelt v. County Commissioners, 80 Maine, 429.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Questions Submitted by the Senate, March 23 & 25, 1903

    97 Me. 590 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Mar 25, 1903

    Head v. Providence Insurance Co., 2 Cranch, 127 ; Bank of Augusta v. Earle, 13 Pet. 519 ; Miller v. New York, 13 Wall. 478 ; Greenwood v. Union Freight Co., 105 U. S. 13 ; Spring Valley Water Works v. Schottler, 110 U. … S. 347 ; Norfolk and Western Railroad Company v. Pennsylvania, 136 U. S. 114 ; State v. Brown Manufacturing Co., 18 R. I. 14; Schaffer v. Union Mining Co., 55 Md. 74; State v. Maine Central R. R.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Pierce v. Getchell

    76 Me. 216 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 2, 1884

    This statutory provision has been carefully examined and construed by this court, in Sanders v. Getchell, ante, p. 158, and no further consideration of it is necessary in this case. … We think the refusal was clearly unreasonable within the meaning of the word as defined in Sanders v. Getchell, supra.

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  • Potvin v. Seven Elms, Inc.

    628 A.2d 115 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 6, 1993

    Werner v. Lane, 393 A.2d 1329, 1335 (Me.1978). … See, e.g., Hall v. Hotel L’Europe, Inc., 69 N.C.App. 664 , 318 S.E.2d 99, 102 (1984); Powell v. Wyoming Cablevision, Inc., 184 W.Va. 700 , 403 S.E.2d 717, 725 (1991). But see Meyers v.

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Milner v. Hare

    125 Me. 460 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Oct 16, 1926

    Watt v. Corey, 76 Maine, 87; Hopkins v. McGillicudy, supra; Page 276; White v. Carr, 71 Maine, 555; Morin v. Moreau, 112 Maine, 471; Stevens v. Fassett, 27 Maine, 266. … The plaintiff urged the latter reason, because of the delay in bringing the trover suit, and it following a dispute as to some hay and board. .

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  • Parkman v. Osgood

    3 Me. 17 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · May 15, 1824

    The case of Brown v. Jin- ■derson 13 Mass. 201 seems to be a strong case against the plaintiff. There the replication attempted to avoid the plea in bar by a promise on the part of the administratrix to pay the debt.

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  • Williams v. Hoyt

    117 Me. 61 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 31, 1917

    The principles to be followed in ,the assessment of damages, which is the only question remaining, are stated in McKay, Admr., v. … Living at home his earnings would, in a large measure, if not entirely, during his school life, be off-set by his board and sustenance.

    Overruled in part by Dostie v. Lewiston Crushed Stone Co., 136 Me. 284 (1939)Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Abbott v. Commissioner of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife

    623 A.2d 1273 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 21, 1993

    Lewiston Raceway, Inc. v. Harness Racing Comm’n, 593 A.2d 663, 664 (Me.1991). … Senty v. Board of Osteopathic Exam. & Reg., 594 A.2d 1068, 1072 (Me.1991).

    Cited 14 timesPublished
  • David A. Jones v. Secretary of State

    239 A.3d 628 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Oct 1, 2020

    See Buckley v. Am. Const. L. Found., Inc., 525 U.S. 182, 186-87, 192-97 (1999); McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Comm’n, 514 U.S. 334, 344-45 (1995); Burdick v. Takushi, 504 U.S. 428, 433-34 (1992); Anderson v. … Brown, 415 U.S. 724, 730 (1974). [¶8] As to Jones’s argument that an affidavit alone would be sufficient to establish residency, we reiterate the significance of simple and timely verification of residency.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Toomey v. City of Portland

    396 A.2d 1029 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jan 26, 1979

    Matthews v. R. T. … See also Mullen v. Brown Homes, Inc., Me., 358 A.2d 557, 560 (1976) (“The Commissioner has, . . . obviously, no equitable powers.”); Waltz v.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Carleton v. Inhabitants of Caribou

    88 Me. 461 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Feb 15, 1896

    Spaulding v. Winslow, 74 Maine, 528. It had more than a casual or accidental connection with the injury. … The same distinction was observed in Aldrich v.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Ricker v. Moore

    77 Me. 292 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 20, 1885

    Linscott v. Buck, 33 Maine, 530; Green v. Smith, 1 Atk. 572; Broome v. Monck, 10 Ves. 597 ; Hadley v. Bank, 3 DeG. J. & S. 63 ; Pom. Eq. § § 368 et seq.; Rose v. Watson, 10 H. L. Cas. 672, 678; Lysaght v. Edwards, L. … Seton v. Slade, 7 Ves. 265; Champion v. Brown, 6 Johns. Ch. 398, 403 . And notice thereof to Moore would constitute him the trustee of Mrs. Niles. Story, Eq. § 789.

    Cited 0 timesPublished

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