DEMEULENAERE v. ROCKWELL MANUFACTURING COMPANY

No. 91, Docket 26834.

312 F.2d 209 (1962)

Robert DEMEULENAERE, Marcel Demeulenaere, Jeanne Demeulenaere, Irma Demeulenaere, Irene Demeulenaere, Paul Demeulenaere, Alfred Demeulenaere, and Universal Cash Register Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Universal Machines, Inc., C. E. Schroeder and Marcel Anthony D'Ochaine, Intervenor-Plaintiffs-Appellants, Raymond Flasselaertre, Andre Mattyssens and Auguste Lambiotte, Additional Intervenor-Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ROCKWELL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Ohmer Corporation, The National Cash Register Company and John O. Ekblom, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided November 16, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gilbert J. Fortgang, New York City (Barry A. Witchell, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Robert L. Clare, Jr., New York City (Shearman & Sterling, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellee, National Cash Register Co.

Mathias F. Correa, New York City (Cahill, Gordon, Reindel & Ohl, New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellees, Rockwell Manufacturing Co., Ohmer Corporation, and John O. Ekblom.

Before MEDINA, SMITH and KAUFMAN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

We agree with the statement by Judge Cashin, 31 F.R.D. 575, "if there ever was a case that deserved to be dismissed for lack of prosecution this is it." After over ten years of procrastination and failure to obey repeated orders of the Court, for which plaintiffs themselves are largely responsible, the dismissal of the complaint, with prejudice, for failure to prosecute, pursuant to Rule 41(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,

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