De Gutz v. Boisvert
Defendant Rene G. Boisvert, appearing in propria persona, appeals from a judgment after bench trial in favor of plaintiff Donald M. De Gutz. Boisvert seeks reversal of the judgment on five grounds. De Gutz, also appearing in propria persona, opposes each ground and urges affirmance. We affirm the judgment.
At the outset, we note that both parties are appearing in propria persona Defendant requests that we liberally construe his briefs based on the United States Supreme Court recognition, in Hughes v. Rowe (1980) 449 U.S. 5, that allegations stated in a prisoner complaint filed in propria persona in federal court, however inartfully pleaded, should be held to a less stringent standard than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers. (Id. at p. 9.) These are not the circumstances before us. Nor do the other federal cases cited by defendant persuade us that we should do anything other than what our own long-standing state law calls for in the circumstances before us.
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