AMBASSADOR INS. CO. v. DUMAS


402 A.2d 1297 (1979)

AMBASSADOR INSURANCE CO. v. Fay E. DUMAS, Administratrix of Estate of Henry C. J. Dumas and Carl J. Townsend, Jr.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

July 2, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richardson, Hildreth, Tyler & Troubh by Richard Joyce (orally), Ronald D. Russell, Portland, for plaintiff.

Wilson, Steinfeld, Murrell, Barton & Lane by Paul Aranson (orally), Henry Steinfeld, Portland, for Carl J. Townsend, Jr.

LaFountain & Ordway by David R. Ordway, Biddeford, for Fay E. Dumas.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., and POMEROY, ARCHIBALD, DELAHANTY, GODFREY and NICHOLS, JJ.


GODFREY, Justice.

At about six o'clock in the morning of September 20, 1975, an automobile, proceeding south on Route 1 in Arundel, crashed into a bridge abutment and left the road. The sole occupants of the vehicle were Henry Dumas, the owner, and his cousin, Carl Townsend, Jr. Dumas received fatal injuries. Townsend sustained serious injuries and has no memory of the accident.

Dumas's mother, Fay Dumas, in her capacity as administratrix of Henry's estate...

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