Powers v. Mitchell
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. This is an action of the case to recover damages in the sum of ten thousand dollars for personal injury alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of the defendant’s negligence in causing a collision of sleighs in which the parties were respectively riding in the public street in Augusta, December 29,1879. The writ was dated on the ninth day of January, A. D. 1880, and entered in the March term, 1880, of this court in Kennebec county, where…
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On exceptions. This is an action of the case to recover damages in the sum of ten thousand dollars for personal injury alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of the defendant’s negligence in causing a collision of sleighs in which the parties were respectively riding in the public street in Augusta, December 29,1879. The writ was dated on the ninth day of January, A. D. 1880, and entered in the March term, 1880, of this court in Kennebec county, where three trials have been had. At the March term, 1882, the plaintiff filed a motion for change of venue, and on the last…
1Opinion of the CourtAppleton, C. J.
This action was pending on the docket of the Supreme Judicial Court for Kennebec county. On March 28, 1882, being the thirteenth day of the term, the plaintiff filed a motion for the transfer of the action to the docket of another county, in which he alleged good and sufficient reasons therefor. The parties were heard on the motion. On the next day this entry, under the action, was made, •" motion continued nisi,” and the court adjourned finally and the term was closed.
Nine days after the adjournment, and in vacation, an order was received from the justice before whom the motion for the…
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- Bearce v. BowkerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1874
- Perry v. WilsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1811
- Lawrence v. SmithMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1809
- Custy v. City of LowellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1875
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- State v. HarnumSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1947
- State v. DonnellSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1928
- Angell v. GilmanSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1949