STATE v. MAINE CENT. R.R.


517 A.2d 55 (1986)

STATE of Maine v. MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD. (Two Cases)

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided October 28, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Crook, Dist. Atty., Pamela Ames (orally), Asst. Dist. Atty., Skowhegan, for plaintiff.

Pierce, Atwood, Scribner, Allen, Smith & Lancaster, Albert G. Ayre (orally), Charles D. Einsiedler, Portland, for defendant.

Before NICHOLS, ROBERTS, WATHEN, GLASSMAN, SCOLNIK and CLIFFORD, JJ.


ROBERTS, Justice.

Maine Central Railroad Company (MCRR) appeals from three judgments of the Superior Court, Somerset and Kennebec County, each affirming judgments rendered by the District Court, Skowhegan and Waterville, determining that MCRR violated 12 M.R.S.A. § 9405 (1981) by failing to "cut and burn off or remove from its right-of-way all grass, brush or other inflammable material" on certain dates in 1984 and 1985.1 As a consequence...

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