SEARLE v. TOWN OF BUCKSPORT

Docket: Kno-09-319

3 A.3d 390 (2010)

2010 ME 89

John W. SEARLE v. TOWN OF BUCKSPORT et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: August 31, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven D. Silin, Esq. , Robert H. Furbish, Esq . (orally), Berman & Simmons, Lewiston, ME, for John W. Searle.

Melissa A. Hewey, Esq. , Jonathan M. Goodman, Esq . (orally), Drummond Woodsum & MacMahon, Portland, ME, for the Town of Bucksport.

Dissent: ALEXANDER, SILVER, and JABAR, JJ.


MEAD, J.

[¶ 1] John W. Searle appeals from a summary judgment entered in the Superior Court (Knox County, Hjelm, J.) in favor of the Town of Bucksport and the Bucksport School Department on his complaint asserting negligent maintenance of the visitors' bleachers at the Bucksport High School football field. Searle contends that the Superior Court erred in holding that the bleachers are not a public building or an...

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