Stores v. McLaughlin

At the opening of the Trial Term in Madison County on May 2, 1949, plaintiffs marked their eases ready. There was no objection to this marking by defendants until May 16th, when, on a physician’s affidavit showing the physical disability of a defendant to attend court due to well-advanced pregnancy which the attorney for defendants had learned for the first time on May 14th, defendants moved the cases over the term.

Plaintiffs Baker objected to the postponement on the ground that they reside in California and had come to New York at some considerable expense to attend the trial and had brought…