Byram v. Main

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

Defendant Peter Main appeals from a judgment entered on August 22, 1986, by the Superior Court (Penobscot County) in the amount of $27,483.52 for plaintiff Ray Byram. After a jury-waived trial the court found Main strictly liable for damages to Byram's tractor-trailer rig caused in the early morning hours of July 22, 1981, when Byram’s rig struck Meadow, the pet donkey of Main’s daughter, which had escaped from its enclosure and wandered onto Interstate 95 in Orono. The judgment here on review was entered following a second trial in this case, on remand from plaintiff…