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  • Bigelow v. Reed

    51 Me. 325 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1863

    Powers v. Mitchell, 3 Hill, 545 ; Seymour v. Brown, 19 Johns., 44 ; Penobscot Boom Corp. v. Baker, 16 Maine, 223; Riddle v. Locks & Canals, 7 Mass., 169 . The case at bar is clearly one of this class. … Murdock v. Warwick, 4 Gray, 178 ; Moore v. Abbott, 32 Maine, 46; Moulton v. Sanford, ante p. 127.

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Medical Mutual Insurance v. Bureau of Insurance

    866 A.2d 117 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jan 19, 2005

    Starting in 2003, the Bureau of Insurance required Medical Mutual to include information on the salaries of its board of directors and senior management in a supplemental exhibit attached to its annual statement. … Town of Burlington v. Hosp. Admin. Dist. No. 1, 2001 ME 59, ¶ 13 , 769 A.2d 857, 861 .

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • State v. True

    438 A.2d 460 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 17, 1981

    Watkins Co. v. Brown, 134 Me. 473, 474 , 188 A. 212, 212 (1936); see also Goldthwaite v. Sheraton Restaurant, 154 Me. 214, 221 , 145 A.2d 362, 366 (1958) (treatises admitted by express consent). … Brown, supra.

    Cited 204 timesPublished
  • State v. Tomah

    586 A.2d 1267 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Feb 28, 1991

    The perpetrator entered through boards in the back of the store and broke into the safe. Money bags containing $2685.00 of United States and Canadian currency were taken or emptied. … See United States v. Silvestri, 787 F.2d 736, 740 (1st Cir.1986); Nix v. Williams, 467 U.S. 431, 443 , 104 S.Ct. 2501, 2508 , 81 L.Ed.2d 377 (1984); United States v. Galante, 547 F.2d 733, 740 (2nd Cir.1976).

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • Allstate Insurance v. Elwell

    513 A.2d 269 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 23, 1986

    In Smith v. Allstate Ins. … (quoting Brown v. City of Laconia, 118 N.H. 376 , 386 A.2d 1276, 1277 (1978)).

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  • Dow v. Atwood

    260 A.2d 437 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 24, 1969

    To the same effect is Leighton v. Leighton, 58 Me. 63 . In Strout v. … Thompson v. Pew, 214 Mass. 520 , 102 N.E. 122 ; Daniel v.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Yde v. State

    376 A.2d 465 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Aug 4, 1977

    In State v. … Kobylanski v. Chicago Board of Education, 63 Ill.2d 165 , 347 N.E.2d 705, 709 (1976). For cases adopting this same rationale, see Eastern Scrap Services, Inc. v.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Howard v. Palmer

    64 Me. 86 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1874

    The *89 corporate powers of the company were to be exercised by a board of trustees and such officers and agents as they might appoint. … Brouwer v. Appleby, 1 Sandf., 158 ; House v. Allen, Ib., 171; Brouwer v. Hill, Ib., 629; Howland v. Myers, 3 Comst., 290.

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Bowley v. Fuller

    121 Me. 22 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 14, 1921

    Hunt v. Bailey, 39 Mo., 257 ; Higgins v. Halligan, 46 Ill., 173 ; Griffin v. Knisely, 75 Ill., 411 ; Reithman v. Brandenburg, 7 Colo., 480 ; Despard v. Walbridge, 15 N. Y., 374 ; Stees v. … Thus, in case of a lodger occupying rooms in a boarding-house with his family; White v. Maynard, 111 Mass., 250 ; Peaks v.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Cobb v. Bolsters Mills Improvement Society

    158 Me. 199 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 18, 1962

    The words of the court in Kirby v. Pennsylvania R. Co. (C. A. 3rd Cir.), 188 F. (2nd) 793, 796 note 11, involving an order and award of the National Railroad Adjustment Board, are applicable.

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  • White v. Inhabitants of Levant

    77 Me. 396 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 16, 1885

    While chairman of the boards of selectmen and overseers of the poor, and agent of Levant, the plaintiff assisted one Mrs. … Anthony v. Adams, 1 Met. 284 ; Vincent v. Nantucket, 12 Cush. 103 ; Minot v. W. Roxbury, 112 Mass. 5; Westbrook v. Deering, 63 Maine, 231.

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  • Proprietors of Union Wharf v. Musset

    48 Me. 307 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1861

    S. v. … S. v.

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  • R.C. Moore, Inc. v. Les-Care Kitchens, Inc.

    931 A.2d 1081 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Sep 25, 2007

    Norris Family Assocs., LLC v. Town of Phippsburg, 2005 ME 102, ¶ 8 , 879 A.2d 1007, 1011 ; Dorf v. … Browne, 2001 ME 182, ¶ 9 , 788 A.2d 168, 170 ). *1087 [¶28] Pursuant to M.R. Civ. P. 55(e), a court may set aside an entry of default for “good cause.”

    Cited 16 timesPublished
  • Maine Consolidated Power Co. v. Inhabitants of Farmington

    219 A.2d 748 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · May 18, 1966

    In making such valuation, the Commission may avail itself of any reports, records or other information available to it in the office of any state officer or board.” … Co. v.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • French v. Lord

    69 Me. 537 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 23, 1879

    Brown v. Williams, 31 Maine, 406. If the husband is seized of a determinable fee, and it is determined by the happening of the event upon which it is limited, the right of dower on the part of the wife or widow ceases. … In Stinson v.

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Inhabitants of North Yarmouth v. Skillings

    45 Me. 133 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1858

    Inhabitants of Gorham v. … J,, in the case of the Inhabitants of Windham v.

    Cited 17 timesPublished
  • Descadillas v. Harris

    8 Me. 298 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · May 15, 1832

    The case of Milward v. Hallet, 2 Caines, 77, was precisely like the present, so far as it related to the admissibility of the witness. … His vessel in a foreign port ready for sea, the cargo on board, and a deficiency of means requisite to pay custom house charges. The money must be raised or the brig be detained.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • State v. Anderson

    1999 Me. 18 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jan 28, 1999

    See State v. Boyington, 1998 ME 163, ¶ 7 , 714 A.2d 141, 143 ; State v. … See, e.g., Fichter v. Board of Envtl. Protection, 604 A.2d 433, 436 (Me.1992) (“State and federal due process requirements are identical.” (citation omitted)); Penobscot Area Hous. Dev. Corp. v.

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Manufacturers National Bank v. Woodward

    141 Me. 28 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 26, 1944

    Dunn v. Ellisor, 225 Ala., 15 , 141 So., 700 ; Shannon v. Eno, 120 Conn., 77 , 179 A., 479 ; Crerar v. Williams, 145 Ill., 625 , 34 N. E., 467 , 21 L. R. A., 454; Webb v. Webb, 340 Ill., 407 , 172 N. E., 730 , 71 A. L. … opinion, whether “the will imperatively requires all income to be used for teachers’ wages, leaving nothing for other things absolutely essential, such as heating, lighting, care of the schoolhouse, repairs, taxes, and board

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Daigle v. Pelletier

    139 Me. 382 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Apr 8, 1943

    Daigle, the plaintiff, an undertaker’s assistant, rode along the main street of Fort Kent on the running-board of a truck, he was struck and seriously injured by ladders attached to a firetruck owned by the town of Fort Kent … Andrews v. Bloom, supra; McCloskey v. Nagel, supra.

    Cited 2 timesPublished

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