Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, 2014

The court vacated the foreclosure judgment because the Bank did not establish that it owned the mortgage and therefore lacked standing to foreclose. It also concluded that the Bank failed to prove the amount due with admissible business-record evidence and sent a cure notice that did not comply with the statutory…

The court affirmed the Probate Court’s denial of Jennifer Edmondson’s petition for intestacy and appointment as personal representative. It held that the court did not abuse its discretion in allowing the hospice physician to testify because Jennifer was not unfairly surprised, and any error was harmless because the…