Legal Opinion
Foss v. Ingeneri
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided July 17, 1989PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WATHEN, Justice.
Plaintiff Gardner E. Foss appeals from a judgment entered in the Superior Court (Penobscot County, Alexander, J.) after a jury awarded no damages in a legal mal*499practice action against his former attorney, Philip L. Ingeneri. Because liability was established by a default judgment, plaintiff argues that the jury was rationally required to award some damages. We conclude, however, that plaintiff did not meet his burden of proving the amount of damages sustained, and we affirm the judgment.
By virtue of the default it is established that plaintiff retained defendant in January,…
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