Opinion ID: 2326472
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: The Yarcheskis' Posts

Text: [¶ 8] The Yarcheskis challenge the trial court's findings that the posts at issue were located on Town property, and that the posts were hazardous. We review a court's factual findings for clear error. Salisbury v. Town of Bar Harbor, 2002 ME 13, ¶ 9, 788 A.2d 598, 601. Contrary to their challenge, the evidence demonstrates clearly that the posts were located on Town property, and were hazardous. They were in the right-of-way and were filled with a sand and cement mixture. Other claims by the Yarcheskis that the Town treated them disparately, acted with discriminatory intent or purpose, acted arbitrarily and capriciously, and that the Town's actions constituted selective enforcement, are entirely without merit. The Town did not violate the Yarcheskis' rights to due process or equal protection. See Polk v. Town of Lubec, 2000 ME 152, ¶ 14, 756 A.2d 510, 513; Aucella v. Town of Winslow, 628 A.2d 120, 124 (Me.1993). [¶ 9] In addition, because the Yarcheskis did not object to the many references concerning their mailboxes and newspaper delivery boxes at trial, the issue of whether the mailboxes and delivery boxes were located in the roadway was tried by consent. Town of Orrington v. Pease, 660 A.2d 919, 922 (Me.1995); Bernier v. Merrill Air Eng'rs, 2001 ME 17, ¶ 22, 770 A.2d 97, 105; M.R. Civ. P. 15(b) (When issues not raised by the pleadings are tried by express or implied consent of the parties, they shall be treated in all respects as if they had been raised in the pleadings.). Accordingly, the court did not act beyond its discretion when it fashioned an equitable remedy, prohibiting the Yarcheskis from placing mailboxes or delivery boxes in the right-of-way. See Eaton v. Cormier, 2000 ME 65, ¶ 4, 748 A.2d 1006, 1008. [2]