JAMISON v. SHEPARD


270 A.2d 861 (1970)

Donnetta McKay JAMISON and Clarence McKay and Daniel Jamison v. Lois M. SHEPARD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

November 6, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sumner H. Lipman, Augusta, for plaintiffs.

Joseph B. Campbell, Augusta, for defendant.

Before DUFRESNE, C. J., and WEBBER, MARDEN, WEATHERBEE and POMEROY, JJ.


MARDEN, Justice.

On appeal. The factual situation out of which this appeal arose occurred during trial involving alleged negligence of the defendant resulting in consequential damages to the plaintiffs. By Chapter 424 P.L. 1965, now 14 M.R.S.A. § 156, the doctrine of comparative negligence was added to our statute. This statute abrogated our law of contributory negligence, which prevented recovery by a plaintiff in any degree negligent, and provided that in cases...

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