Andrews v. Roberts

By this appeal we are asked to review the denial of plaintiff’s motion for continuance made the day her case was assigned for jury trial and its dismissal upon her counsel’s assertion that he was unable to proceed with the trial. The suit had been started in February of 1959 to recover damages for plaintiff’s injuries claimed to have resulted from defendants’ negligence in the operation of an automobile.

Following completion of the pretrial conference, 4 or 5 motions for discovery were filed in plaintiff’s behalf. Upon denial of 3 of said motions by the executive judge of the Wayne circuit…