Case ID: a2d_727/html/0352-01.html
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1999 ME 55
    Evelyn SMITH et al. v. TOWN OF JONESBORO.
    Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.
    Argued Dec. 1, 1998.
    Decided April 13, 1999.
    William B. Devoe (orally), Eaton, Peabody, Bradford & Veague, P.A., Banghor, for plaintiffs.
    Brett D. Baber (orally), Rudman & Winchell, LLC, Bangor, for defendant.
    Before WATHEN, C.J., and CLIFFORD, DANA, SAUFLEY, ALEXANDER, and CALKINS, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

Evelyn Smith appeals from a judgment entered in the Superior Court (Washington County, Harden, J.) granting the Town of Jonesboro’s motion for a judgment as a matter of law because the Smiths failed to present expert testimony on whether the Town’s volunteer fire department breached its duty of care when attempting to suppress a fire in the Smiths’ house and whether that breach proximately caused the destruction of the Smiths’ house. Because the Court is evenly divided, we affirm the judgment.

The entry is:

Judgment affirmed.