IN RE LIQUID CARBONIC TRUCK DRIVERS CHEMICAL, ETC.

No. 77-3056 Summary Calendar.

580 F.2d 819 (1978)

In re LIQUID CARBONIC TRUCK DRIVERS CHEMICAL POISONING LITIGATION M. D. L. DOCKET NO. 252. Rodney J. STRAIN et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, Roger Moran et al., Plaintiffs, v. Kenneth TURNER et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 22, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard S. Smith, Covington, La., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Edward J. Rice, Jr., Lloyd W. Hayes, New Orleans, La., for Turner, Heilgeist, Trautwein, Wakolbinger, Witte, Goken, Esposito, Ziebell & Aetna.

Jerry L. Saporito, Metairie, La., for Process Engineering, Inc.

Rodney Strain, pro se.

Charles Strain, pro se.

Leonard Strain, pro se.

Carl Martin, pro se.

Dennis Morris, pro se.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, COLEMAN and VANCE, Circuit Judges.


COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.

The appellants appeal an order by the district court dismissing their cases from a consolidated multi-party tort suit. They fervently argue that the district judge abused his discretion in ordering their cases dismissed on the basis of a single failure of their counsel to file answers to defendants/appellees' interrogatories on time. After a review of the briefs and the record, we find that there was much more leading to the dismissal than...

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