PORTLAND — The state’s high court Wednesday heard arguments in a defamation claim brought by a Lisbon horse stable owner against a couple who sold her the animal. Knotty, a roughly 20-year-old gelding, was put down in January 2014 after a protracted court battle that pitted his former owners, Jayne and Daniel Buck Soules, against […]
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Judge throws out defamation suit against Lisbon couple over horse
AUBURN — A judge has rejected a Lisbon woman’s counterclaim of defamation in connection to a horse she had euthanized last year. Jayne and Daniel Buck Soules of Lisbon had sought to dismiss the action filed against them by Lisbon Falls businesswoman and stable owner Lisa Bosse. The judge granted their motion last week. Bosse’s […]
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Lisbon Falls stable owner counter sues former owners of ailing horse
AUBURN — The owner of a horse stable in Lisbon Falls is suing a couple from that town, claiming she was slandered or libeled by their reporting to a local newspaper that she was mistreating one of her horses by intending to have it euthanized. Lisa Bosse, owner of Riverview Farm, filed a counter-claim in […]
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Lisbon horse in legal dispute to be euthanized
AUBURN — A horse in Lisbon Falls was expected to be euthanized Tuesday after a protracted court battle. A court injunction issued in October barred the current owner of Knotty, a roughly 20-year-old gelding, from having the ailing horse put down. But on Tuesday morning, Androscoggin County Superior Court Justice MaryGay Kennedy revoked that injunction, […]
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Horse dispute in Lisbon Falls goes to court
AUBURN — The fate of Knotty, a retired race horse, appears to rest in the hands of an Androscoggin County Superior Court judge. A hearing is scheduled Wednesday on a motion for a permanent injunction against Knotty’s owner, Lisa Bosse of Lisbon Falls, from taking any action aimed at euthanizing the animal. Knotty’s former owners, […]