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ESTATE OF ROBBINS v. LAND TRUST

Docket: Cum-15-256.

154 A.3d 1185 (2017)

2017 ME 17

ESTATE OF Merrill P. ROBBINS v. CHEBEAGUE & CUMBERLAND LAND TRUST et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: January 26, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott D. Anderson, Esq. (orally) and Juliet T. Browne , Verrill Dana, LLP, Portland, for appellant Estate of Merrill P. Robbins

Natalie L. Burns, Esq. (orally) and Alyssa C. Tibbetts, Esq. , Jensen Baird Gardner & Henry, Portland, for appellee Town of Cumberland

Paul F. Driscoll, Esq. , and Russell B. Pierce, Jr., Esq. (orally), Norman, Hanson & DeTroy, LLC, Portland, for appellee Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust

R. Reeve Wood III, Esq. , Maine Farmland Trust, Inc., Belfast, for amicus curiae Maine Farmland Trust, Inc.

Lauren E. Parker , Asst. Atty Gen., Office of the Attorney General, Augusta, for amicus curiae Office of the Attorney General

Dissent: ALEXANDER and JABAR, JJ.

[¶ 1] The appeal in this matter requires us to determine whether a private owner of land encumbered by a conservation easement may bring a lawsuit seeking the enforcement of the easement on other land that is not owned by that landowner and in which the landowner has no other legal interest. Here, the Estate of Merrill P. Robbins...

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