Legal Opinion
Fries v. Carpenter
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided December 11, 1989PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GLASSMAN, Justice.
The plaintiffs, William Fries, II, and John Lippitt, appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Alexander, J.) granting the motions of the defendants (several corporations and their directors and officers) to dismiss the plaintiffs’ complaint for insufficiency of service of process under M.R.Civ.P. 12(b). Because Dalot v. Smith, 551 A.2d 448 (Me.1988), is dispositive of the propriety of the dismissal, the sole issue presented on this appeal is whether the dismissal was with prejudice. We hold that it was not and affirm the judgment.
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