Legal Opinion

Charles T. O'TOOle v. William J. Meyer Company, Inc., and William J. Meyer, Individually

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided May 23, 1957No. 16121_1PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing appellant’s personal injury suit for failure of appellant to submit to physical examination and give his deposition as ordered by the court. It presents the interesting and important question whether the disappearance of a plaintiff after having been examined by deposition on all matters relating to liability and as to the elements of injury up to the date of the deposition deprives him of a right to trial upon the insistence of his counsel as against a motion to dismiss.

The record discloses that the damage suit was filed in…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Producers Releasing Corp. De Cuba v. PRC Pictures, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1949
  2. Field v. American-West African Line, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1946

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. The B. F. Goodrich Tire Company v. E. H. LysterCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1964
  2. Bon Air Hotel, Inc. v. Time, Inc., and Dan JenkinsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
  3. Geoffrey Stewart Read v. Dorothy Campbell UlmerCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1962
  4. Charles T. O'TOOle v. William J. Meyer Company, Inc., and William J. Meyer, IndividuallyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1957
  5. The First National Bank of Birmingham, Alabama, and Sindey M. Amith, Executors of the Estate of Henery M. Smith v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1966

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