Legal Opinion
Morrill v. Morrill
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided December 3, 1992PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERTS, Justice.
Plaintiffs Charles Sumner Morrill, IV, Christopher R. Morrill, and Cruegar F. Morrill, sons of Charles Sumner Morrill, III, appeal from an order entered in the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Wernick, A.R.J.) granting the motion of their stepmother, defendant Pauline Jessie Mor- rill, for a directed verdict on their claim for negligent infliction of emotional distress. Because we conclude the sons were owed no legal duty by their stepmother, we affirm.
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Pauline Jessie Morrill and Charles Sumner Morrill, III, were married in 1970. In September 1986 Mrs. Morrill began having…
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