Opinion
No. 8730.
Argued May 14, 1945.
Decided May 25, 1945.
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey; Arthur F. Lederle, Judge.
Civil action by Walter H. Duisberg against James E. Markham, as Alien Property Custodian. From orders fixing a definite date for trial, denying plaintiff a continuance, and dismissing the complaint with prejudice, plaintiff appeals.
Affirmed.
See, also, 54 F. Supp. 365.
Jacob J. Rosenblum, New York City (Richard J. FitzMaurice, of Orange, N.J., and Garey, Desvernine Garey, of New York City, on the brief), for appellant.
Irving J. Levy, Washington, D.C. (Herbert Wechsler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Thorn Lord, U.S. Atty. for District of New Jersey, of Newark, N.J., Harry Leroy Jones, Chief, Alien Property Litigation Unit, Louis P. Haffer, Loretta I. Martone, Attys. Alien Property Litigation Unit, War Division, Department of Justice, and John Ernest Roe, General Counsel to Alien Property Custodian, all of Washington, D.C., on the brief), for appellee.
Before DOBIE, GOODRICH and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.
This is a civil action instituted by Walter H. Duisberg against the Alien Property Custodian. Duisberg has appealed to us from orders of the District Court fixing a definite date for trial, denying Duisberg a continuance, and dismissing the complaint with prejudice when Duisberg refused to proceed with the case after the continuance was denied.
It is well settled that such matters are peculiarly within the discretion of the District Court and the decisions of that Court should be disturbed on appeal only if there has been a clear abuse of discretion. We are convinced, after a careful inspection of the record, that there has been no abuse of discretion here.
The judgment of the District Court is affirmed.