EMERY WATERHOUSE CO. v. LEA


467 A.2d 986 (1983)

The EMERY WATERHOUSE COMPANY v. Gilbert LEA and Craig C. Milne, Glenn M. Desmond and David Adams, DBA Emery Associates.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided November 4, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman & Hanson, Peter J. DeTroy, III (orally), James D. Poliquin, Portland, for plaintiff.

Hunt, Thompson & Bowie, James M. Bowie (orally), Rebecca H. Farnum, M. Roberts Hunt, Portland, for David Adams, Milne, Desmond.

Hewes, Culley, Feehan & Beals, Stephen C. Whiting (orally), Stephen W. Devine, Portland, for Gilbert Lea.

Before McKUSICK, C.J., NICHOLS, ROBERTS, VIOLETTE and WATHEN, JJ., and DUFRESNE, A.R.J.


DUFRESNE, Active Retired Justice.

The defendants, Gilbert Lea and Emery Associates, were the owners respectively of adjacent buildings on Middle Street, in Portland, Lea owning two of the buildings identified, for purposes of convenience, as buildings # 1 and # 2, while buildings # 3 and # 4 were owned by Emery Associates, hereinafter referred to as the Associates. The Associates had leased from Lea the first and second floors of building # 2 together with part of...

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