Legal Opinion
Drake v. Smith
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided August 31, 1978PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WERNICK, Justice.
On July 28, 1970 plaintiff Kenneth L. Drake d/b/a Machias Valley Nursing Home, Inc., commenced a civil action in the Superior Court (Kennebec County) claiming that the named defendant,. Dr. Dean Fisher, in his capacity as Commissioner of the department of government of the State of Maine then known as the Department of Health & Welfare, had acted wrongfully in reducing the payments made by his Department to plaintiff’s nursing home from $350.00 per patient per month to $260.00 per patient per month. Plaintiff asked for damages computed on the basis of the $90.00 differential…
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