Legal Opinion
Link v. Wabash Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 25, 1962No. 422PublishedCited by 14,985 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
Petitioner challenges, from the standpoint of both power and discretion, the District Court’s sua sponte dismissal of this diversity negligence action under circumstances that follow.
The action, growing out of a collision between petitioner’s automobile and one of respondent’s trains, was commenced on August 24, 1954. Some six years later, and more than three years after petitioner had finally prevailed on respondent’s motion for judgment on the pleadings (during which time two fixed trial dates had been postponed),1 the District Court, on September 29, 1960, duly notified counsel for each…
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