Jancauskas v. Tow Motor Corp.

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE CRAVEN

delivered the opinion of the court.

This appeal is by plaintiff from an order dismissing this cause for failure of plaintiff to be personally present at a pretrial conference and denying plaintiff’s motion to reinstate the cause, and from an order denying plaintiff’s motion for a continuance of the pretrial conference.

On September 6, 1966, plaintiff filed this action for personal injuries allegedly caused by negligence of the defendants on March 1, 1965, when a lift truck operated by an employee struck plaintiff, causing fracture of all toes of his right foot,…