Legal Opinion
Martin v. Deschenes
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided December 9, 1983PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NICHOLS, Justice.
The Plaintiff, Genneth Kelly Martin, appeals from the entry of judgment for the Defendant, Regis Deschenes, in Superior Court (Aroostook County) after that court concluded that it lacked personal jurisdiction over the Defendant. Although the entry should have been cast in terms of judgment of dismissal, rather than as judgment for the defendant, the court’s conclusion was correct.
The Plaintiff lives at St. Francis, in Aroostook County, approximately one mile south of the Canadian border. On December 20,1976, while she was driving in nearby Edmundston, New Brunswick, her…
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