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153 Me. 469 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jan 13, 1958
Do any of the provisions of Sections 1 and 2 of Legislative Document 1637 delegate legislative power to the State Board of Education and the School District Commission in violation of Section 1 of Part First of Article IV … V.
Cited 0 timesPublished54 Me. 263 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1866
Luffkin v. Griffiths, 35 Barb., 62 . Riley v. … Phillips v. Brown, 7 Gray, 26 . The common case of trees severed from the freehold and converted, which are always regarded as personal property, is another illustration of the general rule.
Cited 13 timesPublished388 A.2d 72 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jun 23, 1978
In White v. … In Levy v.
Cited 21 timesPublished73 Me. 595 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Nov 28, 1881
Brunt v. Brunt, L. R. 3 Pro. and Div. 37 ; Cheese v. Lovejoy, L. R. 2 P. D. 251; Suyden v. Lord St. Leonards, L. R. 1 P. D. 154; James v. Shrimpton, L. R. 1 Pro. and D. 431; Brown v. … Brown, 8 Ell. and Bl. 876 ; Bowell v. Powell, 1 Pro. and D. (L. R.) 209. I therefore have no doubt, that a will destroyed by a person not possessing testamentary capacity, is not a revocation of such will.
Cited 3 timesPublished11 F. 372 · District Court, D. Maine · Sep 15, 1881
Frost v. Knight, L. R. 7 Ex. 111; Roper v. Johnson, L. R. 8 C. P. 167; Crabtree v. Messersmith, 19 Iowa, 179 ; Holloway v. Griffith, 32 Iowa, 409 ; Fox v. Kitton, 19 Ill. 519 ; Burtis v. Thompson, 42 N. … R. 16 Eq. 155; Brown v. Muller, L. R. 7 Ex. 319; Roper v. Johnson, L. R. 8 C. P. 167. Judge Fox called *375 my attention to these cases, and they seemed to us to he well decided.
Cited 1 timesPublished54 Me. 124 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1866
Norcross v. Thoms, 51 Maine, 503, and more fully in the case of Brown v. Perkins, 12 Gray, 97 . It is unnecessary for us to repeat them here. … State v. Haines, 30 Maine, 65; Rex v. White, 1 Burr., 337; Fish v. Dodge, 4 Denio, 311 ; State v. Pierse, 4 McCord, 472 ; Catlin v. Valentine, 9 Paige, 575 ; Rex v. Neil, 2 Carr & Payne, 485.
Cited 20 timesPublishedStern v. Supreme Judicial Court
184 F.R.D. 10 · District Court, D. Maine · Jan 20, 1999
See Wilton v. … K-Mart Corp. v. Davis, 756 F.Supp. 62, 66 (D.P.R.1991) (citing Amoco Prod. Co. v. Village of Gambell, 480 U.S. 531 , 546 n. 12, 107 S.Ct. 1396 , 94 L.Ed.2d 542 (1987)).
Cited 3 timesPublishedGomes v. University of Maine System
365 F. Supp. 2d 6 · District Court, D. Maine · Apr 8, 2005
Mangla v. Brown Univ., 135 F.3d 80, 83 (1st Cir.1998); Goodman v. President & Trs. of Bowdoin Coll., 135 F.Supp.2d 40, 55 (D.Me.2001). 1. … The Supreme Court pointed out in Board of Curators of the University of Missouri v.
Cited 37 timesPublished305 A.2d 545 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · May 24, 1973
More than six years later, on July 29, 1969, the Secretary of the Board of Selectmen purported to amend the minutes by adding: “I, R. A. … Board of Chosen Freeholders of Essex County, 30 N.J. 381 , 153 A.2d 10 (1959); 50 Am.Jur., Statutes, § 28; 82C.J.S. Statutes § 380.
Cited 22 timesPublished136 Me. 33 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Sep 1, 1938
E., 712 ; Ortwein v. Droste, 191 Ky., 17 , 228 S. W., 1028 ; Oakes v. Van Zomeren, 255 Mich., 372 , 238 N. W., 177 ; Ledet v. Gottleber (La. App.), 143 So., 71 ; Davis v. … Brown, 92 Cal. *38 App., 20 , 267 P., 754 ; Barret v. Caddo Transfer & Warehouse Company, 165 La., 1075 , 116 So., 563 , 58 A. L. R., 261.
Cited 6 timesPublished649 F. Supp. 685 · District Court, D. Maine · Dec 9, 1986
NLRB v. Brown, 380 U.S. 278, 291 , 85 S.Ct. 980, 988 , 13 L.Ed.2d 839 (1965). … Bowen v. Michigan Academy of Family Physicians, — U.S. -, 106 S.Ct. 2133, 2135-36 , 90 L.Ed.2d 623 (1986), quoting Abbott Laboratories v.
Cited 8 timesPublished110 Me. 172 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 27, 1912
R., Vol. 10, page 240; Baker v. … Oakes, 88 Maine, 367; Brown v. Lyford, 103 Maine, 362.
Cited 9 timesPublished583 A.2d 211 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 7, 1990
Reviewing the District Court judgment directly, see Williams v. Williams, 444 A.2d 977, 978-79 (Me.1982), we agree with the Superior Court that it contains no error. … We find no abuse of discretion in the court’s refusal to charge the wife with the past cost of providing board and room in the family home to the couple’s adult son and his girl friend.
Cited 1 timesPublishedTownsend v. Chute Chemical Co.
691 A.2d 199 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Mar 14, 1997
Bates v. Anderson, 614 A.2d 551, 552 (Me.1992); Ames v. … Brown Co. v. Gillen, 569 A.2d 1206, 1210 (Me.1990).
Cited 26 timesPublished44 Me. 167 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jul 1, 1857
Brown v. Chadbourne, 31 Maine R., 9. … Rich v. Barterfield, 56 Eng. Com. Law R., 783; Regina v. Watson, 2 Ld. Raymond, 856; Earle v. Hall, 2 Met. R., 353; Hilliard v. Richardson, 3 Gray’s R., 349; Wyman v. Farrar, 35 Maine R., *177 64.
Cited 1 timesPublished121 Me. 83 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Dec 24, 1921
State v. Piche, 98 Maine, 348; State v. Starr, 67 Maine, 242; State v. McCafferty, 63 Maine, 223. Counsel cites Heintz v. … Commonwealth v. Leo, 110 Mass., 414 ; Commonwealth v. Peto, 136 Mass., 155 . In Commonwealth v.
Cited 5 timesPublished14 F. Cas. 487 · District Court, D. Maine · Sep 15, 1863
Against this, one of the owners of the Karnak, who was on board, earnestly remonstrated. … Prin, & Ag. pp. 155, 156; King v. Lenox, 19 Johns. 235 ; Peters v. Ballistier, 3 Pick. 495 .
Cited 0 timesPublishedIn re Lac Megántic Train Derailment Litigation
210 F. Supp. 3d 218 · District Court, D. Maine · Sep 28, 2016
See also Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S.A. v. Brown, 564 U.S. 915, 919 , 131 S.Ct. 2846 , 180 L.Ed.2d 796 (2011). 1. … Waldman v.
Cited 4 timesPublished663 F. Supp. 484 · District Court, D. Maine · Jun 9, 1987
Templeman v. Chris Craft Corp., 770 F.2d 245, 247 (1st Cir.), cert. denied, 474 U.S. 1021 , 106 S.Ct. 571 , 88 L.Ed.2d 556 (1985); Robinson v. Pocahontas, Inc., 477 F.2d 1048, 1053 (1st Cir.1973). 1 See also Furtado v. … Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 , 91 S.Ct. 1780 , 29 L.Ed.2d 284 (1971); see also State v. John W, 418 A.2d 1097, 1108 (Me.1980).
Cited 0 timesPublished953 A.2d 1142 · Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · Jan 24, 2008
Liberty v. Liberty, 2001 ME 19, ¶ 11 , 769 A.2d 845, 847 ; Weiss v. Brown, 1997 ME 57, ¶ 7 , 691 A.2d 1208,1210 . [¶ 10] Moreover, Higgins’s brief to us contained a number of arguments that are totally without merit.
Cited 2 timesPublished
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