BAGLEY v. BAGLEY


415 A.2d 1080 (1980)

Roy W. BAGLEY v. Geraldine BAGLEY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided June 23, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nisbet, MacNichol & Ludwig by Francis M. Jackson, III (orally), South Portland, for plaintiff.

Lowry, Platt & Givertz by Thomas P. Downing, Jr. (orally), Phyllis G. Givertz, Portland, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., and WERNICK, GODFREY, NICHOLS, GLASSMAN and ROBERTS, JJ.


McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff's appeal seeks reversal of the action of the District Court in amending its prior judgment, under M.R.Civ.P. 60(b), in order to correct an omission it found had occurred therein through inadvertence. We find it necessary to decide only a single, straightforward question: Should a court, on principles of forum non conveniens, ever decline to entertain a Rule 60(b) motion seeking to correct a judgment previously rendered by...

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