Dewandelaer v. Sawdey
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for libel, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and withdrawn by agreement of the parties and without the knowledge of the plaintiff’s attorney, who thereupon filed a written application that the ease be restored to the docket; the court (Robinson, J.) denied the application, from which the plaintiff’s attorney appealed in the name of the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The plaintiff brought an action for libel to the Superior Court in New Haven county on the first Tuesday of May, 1905, by a complaint signed by her attorney, M. J. Byrne, claiming $10,000 damages. There was filed a written withdrawal of the action, without costs in favor of either party, signed by the plaintiff and the defendant, which is indorsed as received by the clerk August 10th, 1905, and filed September 2d, 1905. On the 10th of the next October, at the next term of court, said attorney made a written application in his own name, asking that the case be restored to the docket. The…
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