Margaret S. MacLeod and Norman M. MacLeod v. D. C. Transit System, Inc.

BURGER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants brought suit in the District Court for personal injuries sustained in 1955 from a sudden stop by appellee’s bus in which Mrs. MacLeod was a passenger. When the case first came on for trial, a disagreement developed between appellants and their counsel, the latter recommending a settlement which appellants refused to accept. A continuance was granted to allow appellants to secure new counsel, conditions being attached to the continuance.

Appellants then secured new counsel whose settlement of the case during the course of the trial on the merits is now under…