RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY, INC. v. HILL

No. 4395.

250 A.2d 923 (1969)

RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY, INC., and Walter E. Gilmore, Appellants, v. Lycurgus HILL, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 10, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry H. Paige, Washington, D.C., with whom Arthur P. Drury, John M. Lynham and John E. Powell, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellants.

Marvin E. Preis, Washington, D.C., with whom Harry I. Barnett, Washington, D.C. was on the brief, for appellee.

Before FICKLING and GALLAGHER, Associate Judges, and QUINN (Associate Judge, Retired).


QUINN, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order granting a motion to reinstate a cause of action which had been dismissed for want of prosecution. For clarity, the parties are referred to as plaintiff and defendant.

The litigation out of which this appeal arose began in March of 1962 when plaintiff, through his former attorney, filed suit against defendant in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The action was certified to the Court...

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