Foye v. Consolidated Baling MacHine Company

WEBBER, Justice.

This case requires an interpretation of 14 M.R.S.A. Sec. 704(1), our so-called “long arm” statute originally enacted as P.L.19S9, Ch. 317, Sec. 125. As applicable to the facts of the instant case the statute subjects a nonresident “to the jurisdiction of the courts of this State as to any cause of action arising from * * * B. The commission of a tortious act within the State resulting in physical injury to person or property’. (Emphasis ours) This statute was borrowed with only slight change from the Illinois “long arm” statute (R.S. Ch. 110, Par. 17). The change referred to…