LEVESQUE v. ACL ENTERPRISES, INC.


436 A.2d 877 (1981)

Nelson v. LEVESQUE v. ACL ENTERPRISES, INC. and American Mutual Insurance Co. and Second Injury Fund.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided November 3, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dunleavy Law Offices, Kurt M. Meeuwenberg, (orally), Presque Isle, for plaintiff.

Mitchell & Stearns, John A. Woodcock, Jr., (orally), Kevin M. Cuddy, Bangor, Charles Devoe, Steven F. Wright, (orally), Asst. Attys. Gen., Augusta, for respondent appellee Second Injury Fund.

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


ROBERTS, Justice.

In Wentzell v. Timberlands, Inc., Me., 412 A.2d 1213 (1980) we criticized the language of 39 M.R.S.A. § 57 (Second Injury Fund). Although section 57 has been amended,1 we are again asked to interpret its former provisions. While we "will not shrink from fulfilling our responsibility to construe Section 57" despite our reluctance to intrude in an area so uniquely statutory...

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