ROUSSEL v. STATE


274 A.2d 909 (1971)

Romeo A. ROUSSEL and Eileen J. Roussel v. STATE of Maine, Dr. Dean H. Fisher, Commissioner of Health and Welfare.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

March 3, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward C. Dalton, Jr., Falmouth, for plaintiffs.

Janice M. Lynch, Asst. Atty. Gen., Augusta, for defendants.

Before DUFRESNE, C. J., and WEBBER, WEATHERBEE and WERNICK, JJ.


WERNICK, Justice.

Petitioners—plaintiffs, husband and wife, (hereinafter designated Roussels) have appealed to this Court from a final judgment of a single Justice sitting in the Superior Court. The judgment dismissed Roussels' petition for a writ of habeas corpus and their complaint, conjoined with the petition, seeking a declaratory judgment and coercive relief by injunction.

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