Legal Opinion
Welsh v. Automatic Poultry Feeder Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 9, 1971No. 20454PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McMANUS, Chief District Judge.
This diversity action was dismissed below with prejudice1 for Appellants’ repeated failure to comply with orders of court and their personal agreements with the court and opposing counsel. The question on appeal is whether that dismissal constituted an abuse of discretion. We affirm.
*96The relevant facts are that on February 27, 1969, Appellants filed their complaint seeking damages for the destruction of a hatchery in a fire on March 1, 1963. By agreement, the filing of Ap-pellees’ answers were postponed until August 27, 1969. On that same day, Judge Larson held…
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- Industrial Building Materials, Inc. v. Interchemical Corp.District Court, C.D. California · 1967
- Earl Winston Jameson v. Wilson L. Du CombCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1960
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3Cited by51 opinions
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- Selby v. MoneySupreme Court of Alabama · 1981
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