Keatinge v. Biddle

ORDER ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS FOR JUDGMENT NOTWITHSTANDING THE VERDICT AND/OR FOR NEW TRIAL

HORNBY, Chief Judge.

The defendants’ motion for new trial and their motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict are both Denied.

Upon certification of the question, the Law Court definitively rejected (as I did earlier) the defendants’ first line of defense — that there can never be an attorney-client relationship between the grant- or of a power of attorney and a lawyer engaged by the holder. The question that remains, then, is how it is to be determined whether any such relationship exists. Although…