Stebbins v. Friend, Crosby Company

Two cases, heard together here, appear for the third time in this court notwithstanding that they have not yet been tried, a situation chargeable almost if not entirely to counsel rather than the court below. The two earlier decisions appear in 178 Minn. 549, 228 N. W. 150, and 184 Minn. 177, 238 N. W. 57. By the latter decision we denied defendant’s motion to quash writs of certiorari upon the hearing of which the cases are again presented. The writs bring up orders of the trial court striking the cases from the calendar, upon the ground of plaintiffs’ supposed noncompliance with an earlier…