Legal Opinion
Diaz v. Southern Drilling Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 2, 1970No. 27197PublishedCited by 166 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:
The trial court granted default judgment against appellant Trefina, A.G., in this case, as a sanction for the repeated failure of that corporation’s officer, Widmer, to make himself available for deposition. Trefina now appeals, contending (1) that the intervention of the United States, the party requesting the deposition below, was improper in this case, and (2) that the court’s use of the harsh sanction of default judgment was an abuse of discretion. We find that the intervention was proper. Furthermore, we conclude that the default judgment was a foreseeable, just…
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