Nichols-Morris Corporation v. Robert E. Morris

HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of Judge Kaufman in the Southern District of New York that denied the plaintiff’s motion for an order extending its time for sixty days after the entry of a judgment denying part of the damages claimed by the plaintiff for breach by the defendant of his fiduciary duty. Judge Weinfeld, who tried the case without a jury, on June 24, 1959, D.C., 174 F. Supp. 691, found the defendant liable to the plaintiff for only $23,500 out of a much larger sum demanded and dismissed a claim for an injunction. On July 30 the plaintiff’s attorney served on…