Gliwa v. United States Steel Corp.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaefer,

This appeal is from an order striking off a decree pro confesso.

May 25, 1935, a rule was granted upon plaintiffs’ attorney to produce and file his warrant or warrants of attorney for the one hundred and ninety-two persons joined as parties plaintiff, “all other proceedings in this case to be stayed until such warrant or warrants of attorney shall have been produced and filed as aforesaid.” *

July 3, 1937, with this stay order in existence, upon a praecipe signed by seven of the one hundred and ninety-two plaintiffs and eleven other persons not parties to the…