Legal Opinion
Roche v. Egan
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided August 12, 1981PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WERNICK, Justice.
A jury in the Superior Court (Cumberland County) found that defendants Robert and Geraldine Egan, Frederick and Sandra Brown, and Frank and Josephine Fulhan committed a libel against plaintiff Thomas S. Roche, which caused damages to both him and his wife, plaintiff Marylou Roche. Awarding each of them compensatory damages, the jury also awarded punitive damages to plaintiff Thomas Roche. A judgment was entered against each defendant from which that defendant has appealed.
We conclude that there was a critical ambiguity in the rationale underlying the verdict form regarding…
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