Legal Opinion
Maine Savings Bank v. Bridges
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided July 7, 1981PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WERNICK, Justice.
This appeal by defendants Dalton L. Bridges and Alexander MacNichol from a summary judgment adverse to them entered in the Superior Court (Cumberland County) raises the question, not yet squarely decided by this Court, of what interest, if any, is retained or taken by one of two joint tenants of real property who, as established by a judgment of conviction entered in a criminal prosecution, has “intentionally or knowingly” killed the other joint tenant, in violation of 17-A M.R.S.A. § 201(1)(A).
The civil action in which the summary judgment now under attack was entered was…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Bradley v. FoxIllinois Supreme Court · 1955
- Smith v. GreenburgSupreme Court of Colorado · 1950
- Beddingfield v. Estill & NewmanTennessee Supreme Court · 1906
- Bierbrauer v. MoranAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1935
- Van Alstyne v. TuffyNew York Supreme Court · 1918
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3Cited by4 opinions
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- Applied Genetics International, Inc. v. First Affiliated Securities, Inc. American First Corporation Jack A. Alexander Kenneth W. Elsberry Richard P. Woltman and William J. Patton, Defendants/third- Party v. Norman Jay Hayes, Third-Party-Defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1990