· 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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