MABEE v. NORDIC AQUAFARMS INC.

Docket: Wal-22-19.

290 A.3d 79 (2023)

2023 ME 15

Jeffrey R. MABEE et al. v. NORDIC AQUAFARMS INC. et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: February 16, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kimberly J. Ervin Tucker, Esq. (orally), Lincolnville, for appellants Jeffrey R. Mabee, Judith B. Grace, and Friends of the Harriet L. Hartley Conservation Area.

David J. Perkins, Esq. (orally), Curtis Thaxter LLC, Portland, for appellant Upstream Watch.

Kristin M. Collins, Esq. , Stephen E.F. Langsdorf, Esq. , Sigmund D. Schutz, Esq. , and Cameron Ferrante, Esq. , Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios LLP, Portland, for appellee City of Belfast.

Andre G. Duchette, Esq. , and Gregg R. Frame, Esq. , Taylor, McCormick & Frame, LLC, Portland, for appellees Richard and Janet Eckrote.

David M. Kallin, Esq. (orally), and Melissa A. Hewey, Esq. , Drummond Woodsum, Portland, for appellee Nordic Aquafarms Inc.

Panel: STANFILL, C.J., and JABAR, HORTON, CONNORS, JJ., and HUMPHREY, A.R.J.


[¶1] This is an appeal from a judgment entered by the Superior Court (Waldo County, R. Murray, J.) after a bench trial, determining ownership and land use rights in intertidal land bordering Penobscot Bay. We vacate the judgment, concluding, inter alia, that under the plain language of the governing deeds, the disputed land...

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