Spickler v. York

The plaintiff, Robert Spickler, appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court, Cumberland County, granting the defendant, Robert York’s, motion for summary judgment pursuant to Rule 56 of the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure. Spickler contends that York, acting as his attorney in a substantial land transaction between Spick- ler and one Roger Dube, 1 negligently failed to reduce to writing certain terms of the real estate agreement. The Superior Court found that Spickler was collaterally es-topped from litigating the issue of the proximate cause of his damages because of the jury’s…