Legal Opinion
Faucher v. City of Auburn
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided September 29, 1983PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VIOLETTE, Justice.
Dana Faucher, a minor, appeals from a Superior Court, Androscoggin County dismissal of his Maine Tort Claims Act (MTCA) suit against the Auburn School Department. Faucher argues that the presiding justice erred in concluding that Faucher had failed to comply with 14 M.R.S.A. § 8107,1 the notice provision of the MTCA. We affirm the Superior Court judgment.
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On January 23, 1980, Faucher, then eleven years old, slipped and fell on an outside stairway in a public schoolyard in Auburn. His mother was notified of the fall by a teacher and, the following day, his mother phoned that…
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