Boothbay Register, Inc. v. Murphy

This appeal represents the third attempt by the lawyer-appellant appearing pro se to avoid the consequences of a judgment for $88.82 entered against him in the District Court (Lewiston) in a small claims case. Boothbay Register, Inc., recovered that judgment for a legal advertisement that it published at defendant’s request in its Wis-casset newspaper for three consecutive weeks in May and June, 1977.

First, defendant filed in the small claims proceeding in the District Court a Rule 59 motion for a new trial, claiming principally that he had not had an opportunity to present evidence at the…