Legal Opinion
Canning v. Hackett
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided May 5, 1933PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREWSTER, District Judge.
The plaintiff has filed a motion to restore this case to the docket. . It involves the vacating of an order dismissing the action under rule 34 of this court for want of prosecution.
The facts appearing in the affidavit and assumed in argument are these:
On November 28, 1928, the action was brought in the state court. The action was duly removed to this court on January 23, 1929. James H. Vahey appeared as attorney of record for the plaintiff. No action having been taken for two years prior thereto, on January 29, 1932, an order was entered dismissing the bill under…
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