Holland v. Capital Transit Co.

CAYTON, Chief Judge.

We are asked to review an order of the trial court refusing to reinstate a case which had been dismissed for want of prosecution. The suit charged that plaintiff was injured because of th'e sudden stopping of a street car on which she was a passenger. The incident allegedly happened more than eight and a half years ago. Plaintiff filed her suit in the United States District Court on October 11," 1950, one day’before her claim Would have been barred,by limitations. In that court the pretrial judge, being of the opinion that the action would not jústify a judgment in excess…