National Publicity Society v. Raye
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Action of assumpsit, to which action defendant filed plea in abatement, to which plea plaintiff demurred generally. Issue was joined on the demurrer. After hearing, the presiding Justice overruled demurrer and plaintiff filed exceptions to ruling. Case stated in opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCornish, J.
This is an action of assumpsit brought to recover the sum of sixty dollars and eighty-two cents on an account annexed. The ad damnum is one hundred and twenty-five dollars. The plaintiff is a New York corporation, and the defendant a resident of Eastport. The writ was entered at the October Term, 1915, of the supreme judicial court for Washington county, at which term the defendant seasonably filed a plea in abatement alleging that the attorney who instituted the suit arid brought and entered the writ was at the time the Judge of the Eastport municipal court, and was prohibited by the statute…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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