Title: Dartmouth Company v. Day's, Inc.

State: maine

Issuer: Maine Supreme Court

Document:

Decided September 15, 1980. Drummond, Woodsum, Plimpton & MacMahon, Thomas H. Allen (orally), Portland, for plaintiff. Reef & Mooers, P.A., William B. Jordan (orally), Norman S. Reef, Allen J. Hrycay, Portland, for defendant. Before McKUSICK, C. J., and WERNICK, GODFREY, NICHOLS, GLASSMAN and ROBERTS, JJ. GLASSMAN, Justice. Plaintiff-appellant, The Dartmouth Company, appeals from an order of the Superior Court, Cumberland County, denying a motion for approval of attachment and trustee process. Having jurisdiction under the collateral order exception to the final judgment rule, see Northeast Investment Co. v. Leisure Living Communities, Inc., Me., 351 A.2d 845 , 849 (1976); Foisy v. Bishop, Me., 232 A.2d 797 , 798 (1967), we affirm the order of the Superior Court. *367 In order to be entitled to prejudgment attachment and/or trustee process, the plaintiff must demonstrate by affidavit or otherwise a reasonable likelihood of success. M.R.Civ.P. 4A(c) (attachment); M.R. Civ.P. 4B(c) (trustee process); see Northeast Investment Co. v. Leisure Living Communities, Inc., supra, 351 A.2d at 851-52. Dartmouth predicates its right to relief on an assignment of a lease and incorporated agreement between P.H. & J.M. Brown Company as lessor and Day's, Inc. as lessee. The answer of Day's, Inc. denies the fact of the assignment upon information and belief. No evidence by way of affidavit or otherwise was offered in the Superior Court as to the existence of the assignment upon which Dartmouth's right to relief is predicated. Therefore, Dartmouth failed to establish a reasonable likelihood of success on its complaint.[1] The entry is: Order denying approval of attachment and trustee process affirmed. All concurring.