Nishimatsu Construction Co., Ltd. v. Houston National Bank, Defendant-Third Party v. Jack D. Baize, Third Party

U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · Decided 1975-07-18

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WISDOM, Circuit Judge: In this diversity case, “the fundamental question,” as the appellee frames it, “is whether a party who has wilfully disregarded the rules of the judicial process and ignored the trial setting of the court below, and who suffers a judgment by default as a result of his deliberate and contumacious conduct, may under the guise of challenging the jurisdictio…

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