Legal Opinion

Harmon v. Harmon

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided August 23, 1979PublishedCited by 38 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

NICHOLS, Justice.

Somewhere near the frontier of the expanding field of law relating to tortious interference with an advantageous relationship we encounter the legal issue which is paramount in this appeal.

By a complaint entered November 21, 1977, in Superior Court in Cumberland County the Plaintiff, Richard Harmon, asserted that the Defendants, Harold C. Harmon and Virginia S. Harmon (who are the Plaintiff’s brother and brother’s wife) had by fraud and undue influence induced the Plaintiff’s mother, Josephine F. Harmon, while she was 87 years old and in ill health, to transfer to the…

2Cases cited35 opinions

  1. Latham v. Father DivineNew York Court of Appeals · 1949
  2. Tuttle v. BuckSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1909
  3. Woodbury v. WoodburyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1886
  4. CRY v. CoteSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1979
  5. Lewis v. CorbinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907

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3Cited by38 opinions

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  3. Beckwith v. DahlCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2012
  4. Ramsdell v. Erskine BowlesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1995
  5. Dr. E.G. Fischer v. Bar Harbor Banking and Trust CompanyCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1988

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