James J. Welden v. Grace Line, Inc.

LUMBARD, Judge:

This appeal asks us to hold that the district court abused its discretion in denying plaintiff’s application to vacate the dismissal of his case entered May 31, 1967. ^ The dismissal was ordered after plaintiff s counsel failed to appear at pretrial conferences scheduled for May 11 and May 18, 1967.^ Judge Sylvester J. Ryan denied an application to vacate the dismissal on November 30,1967. A similar application, this time made specifiedly under Rule 60(b), Fed.R.Civ.P., was again denied by Judge Ryan on May 1, 1968. This appeal is prosecuted from the November 30 order, but the…