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· 7/1/1853

Inhab'ts of Brewer v. Inhab'ts of Linnaeus

Citations

  • 36 Me. 428

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that trial court is \free to 'disbelieve statements made by a moving party in its affidavits'\
  • “Nothing required the trial court to believe the factual assertions in [the] affidavit, or required it to find that the affidavit established good cause.”
  • noting there “were specific reasons for the trial court to have been skeptical of [the defendant’s] showing of good cause,” including that the affidavit was “vague” and “offer[ed] no explanation as to what actually happened to the documents at issue”

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Judges: Appleton, Hathaway, Rice, Shepley, Tenney

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