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PARKS v. JACOBS

No. 4745.

258 A.2d 264 (1969)

Arvie PARKS, Appellant, v. Carl Leon JACOBS, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 7, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorsey Evans, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Thomas J. Scanlon, Washington, D. C., with whom Howard J. McGrath, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before KELLY, GALLAGHER and NEBEKER, Associate Judges.

NEBEKER, Associate Judge.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing a complaint in a personal injury action for failure to diligently prosecute by obtaining timely service of process.1 We affirm the dismissal as a reasonable exercise of discretion since appellant was in possession of information sufficient to locate appellee at the time he filed the complaint but supplied an improper address, and because he waited almost three (3) years...

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