Ultracashmere House, Ltd. v. Meyer

This is an appeal by a defendant in a lawsuit commenced in March of 1980 and involving a dispute over an agreement by the defendant to deliver a line of clothing to the plaintiff and the plaintiff's agreement to purchase that line. The specifics of the lawsuit are irrelevant to the issues raised on appeal, which involve the question of whether or not the trial court abused its discretion in imposing sanctions under Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 37, for the failure of the defendant to comply with discovery orders issued throughout this protracted proceeding. A history of the…