Drexel v. True
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska.
1Opinion of the Court
CALDWELL, Circuit Judge.
This action was begun on the 19th day of March, 1894, in the United States circuit court for the district of Nebraska, by Loren W. True, the defendant in error, against John 0. Drexel, sheriff of Douglas county, and others, the plaintiffs in error, to recover damages for the alleged conversion of a stock of millinery goods. No exceptions were taken to the charge of the court.
It is assigned for error that the court refused to continue the case upon an application died by the plaintiffs in error. A continuance is not a matter of right, but is a matter resting in the…
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