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  • State v. Caplan

    353 A.2d 172 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Mar 5, 1976

    When she notified the police she gave the following description of her assailant: “[H]e was about 6 foot, 160 or 170, he had brown should-length [sic] hair parted in the middle, and he looked Indian, his nose was flatened … State v.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • State v. Bouchles

    457 A.2d 798 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Mar 8, 1983

    State v. Hassapelis, 404 A.2d 232, 237 (Me.1979) (zippered gym bag); see also State v. … Patten, 436 A.2d 387 (Me.1981) (closed brown paper bag), vacated, 457 U.S. 1114 , 102 S.Ct. 2919 , 73 L.Ed.2d 1325 (1982), on remand, 457 A.2d 806 (Me.1983) (suppression order reversed); State v.

    Cited 14 timesPublished
  • Proprietors of South-West Bend Bridge v. Hahn

    28 Me. 300 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · May 15, 1848

    The erection of a sign board is of course to be subsequent to the passage of the act, but precedent to the right to take to31. … Griffin v. House, 17 Pick. 432 ; People v. Dinslow, 18 Johns. R. 396; 1 Caines, 180 ; Commonwealth v. Heare, 2 Mass. R. 102 ; Nichols v. Bertram & al. 3 Pick. 342 .

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Riley v. Oxford Paper Co.

    149 Me. 418 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jan 19, 1954

    The court cited in support of its holding Brown’s Case, 123 Me. 424 , which did not involve a fall, but which allowed compensation for an acute dilation of the heart induced by overexertion in shoveling snow. … As was stated in White v. Ins.

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  • Mahar v. StoneWood Transport

    823 A.2d 540 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · May 1, 2003

    Brown, 158 F.3d 605, 609-10 (1st Cir.1998); see Nichols v. Land Transp. … Court’s opinion ¶¶ 13-14 (citing Restatement (Second) of Agency §§ 229, 232-34 (1958); Lyons v. Brown, 158 F.3d 605, 609-10 (1st Cir. 1998)).

    Cited 78 timesPublished
  • LaFlamme v. Hoffman

    148 Me. 444 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Mar 17, 1953

    Brown v. Crafts, 98 Me. 40, 47 ; Savings Bank v. Merriam, 88 Me. 146, 151 ; Savings Institution v. Hathorn, 88 Me. 122 , 126 and 127; Strout, Admr. v. Burgess, 144 Me. 263, 287 . … As said in Bigelow v.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Sirois v. Winslow

    585 A.2d 183 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jan 9, 1991

    See State v. Bassford, 440 A.2d 1059, 1061 (Me.1982); Matheson v. Bangor Publishing Company, 414 A.2d 1203, 1205-06 (Me.1980). … State v. Bassford, 440 A.2d at 1061 .

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Kelly v. University of Maine

    623 A.2d 169 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 13, 1993

    Development Group Inc. v. Nelson, 606 A.2d 774, 775 (Me.1992). … Cyr v.

    Cited 15 timesPublished
  • Gordon v. Hutchins

    118 Me. 6 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jan 14, 1919

    Chadbourne, 42 Maine, 429, 443; Pendergrass v. York Manufacturing Co., 76 Maine, 509, 513; Morgan v. Bliss, 2 Mass., 111 ; Bridge v. Sumner, 1 Pick., 370 ; Haskell v. Friend, 196 Mass., 198, 200 ; Homer v. … Brown, 16 Howard ( 21 U. S., 182 ) 354, 365; Manhattan Life Insurance Co. v. Broughton, 109 U. S., 121, 124, 125 ; United States v. Parker, 120 U. S., 89, 93 .

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Cunningham v. Inhabitants of Frankfort

    104 Me. 208 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 9, 1908

    Moriarty v. Lewiston, 98 Maine, 482. "A defect such as the statutes contemplates must be something which unlawfully impairs the reasonable safety and convenience of the way.” Bartlett v. Kittery, 68 Maine, 358. … In Perkins v.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Lumsden v. Manson

    96 Me. 357 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 11, 1902

    Jones on Mortgages, § 792 ; Butler v. Taylor, 5 Gray, 455 ; Ellsworth v. Lockwood, 42 N. Y. 89 ; Hubbard v. Ascutney Co., 20 Vt. 402 . The language of our statute K. … Burrill v. Parsons, 73 Maine, 286; Munro v. Barton, 95 Maine, 262; Holton v. Brown, 18 Vt. 224 ; Richardson v. Boston Chemical Laboratory, 9 Met. 42 .

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Porter v. Hooper

    13 Me. 25 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 15, 1836

    In Fairclaim v. … In Doe v.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Peabody v. Maguire

    79 Me. 572 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 27, 1887

    Everett v. Hall, 67 Maine, 498; Brown v. Haynes, 52 Maine, 580. … Seed v. Lord, 66 Maine, 580; Stone v. Perry, 60 Maine, 50; Whitney v. Eaton, 15 Gray, 225 .

    Cited 17 timesPublished
  • Oronoka Restaurant, Inc. v. Maine State Liquor Commission

    532 A.2d 1043 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Oct 30, 1987

    The scope of the Commission’s review has been further defined in Ullis v. … See Bayside Enterprises v. Maine Agr. Bargaining Board, 513 A.2d 1355, 1360-61 (Me. 1986); Hale v. Petit, 438 A.2d 226, 232-33 (Me.1981).

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Dillingham v. Smith

    30 Me. 370 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1849

    Hathorn v. Stinson, 1 Fairf. 224; Waterman v. Johnson, 13 Pick. 261 . … Lowell v. Flint, 20 Maine, 401; Doty v. Gorham, 5 Pick. 487 ; Potter v. Luther, 3 Johns. 431 .

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Dionne v. Libbey-Owens Ford Co.

    621 A.2d 414 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Mar 2, 1993

    See Ciccotelli v. KTS Industries, Inc., 415 A.2d 1091, 1092 (Me.1980); Brown v. Palmer Const. Co., 295 A.2d 263, 265 (Me.1972). … Potter v. Schafter, 161 Me. 340, 341 , 211 A.2d 891 (1965). In response to our decision in Potter v.

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Charles D. Wardwell v. John R. Duggins

    136 A.3d 703 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 12, 2016

    Warren Co. v. … v.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Jackson v. Burnham

    129 Me. 344 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Oct 31, 1930

    Wyman v. Brown, 50 Me., 139. As already observed, the plaintiff relies upon a warranty deed *349 dated February 12, 1926, and recorded June 3, 1926.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Norton v. Smith

    130 Me. 58 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Feb 13, 1931

    Power Co. v. Foundation Co., 129 Me., 81; Callinan v. Tetrault, 123 Me., 302; Pillsbury v. Brown, 82 Me., 450, 455. … Dist. of Columbia v. Cornell, 130 U. S., 655, 658 ; Sullivan v. Shea, 32 Cal. App., 369 ; Darland v. Taylor, 52 Iowa, 503 ; McDonald v. Loomis, 233 Mich., 174 ; Vanauken v. Hornbeck, 14 N. J. L., 178; Gardner v.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Drake v. Town of Sanford

    643 A.2d 367 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 6, 1994

    Lerman v. City of Portland, 675 F.Supp. 11, 16 (D.Me.1987) (citing Culebras Enters. Corp. v. Rivera Rios, 813 F.2d 506, 515 (1st Cir.1987)). Maine does allow inverse condemnation claims. See Foss v. … Zoning Board of Appeals, 313 A.2d 741, 746-47 (Me.1974) (allowing such temporal distinctions to arrest unwanted trends).

    Cited 3 timesPublished

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