Silverman v. Millner

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when denial of continuance creates injustice, appellate court’s obligation to rectify injustice outweighs policy of not disturbing trial court’s ruling, particularly when opposing party would suffer no injury or great inconvenience
• holding that when denial of continuance creates injustice, appellate court's obligation to rectify injustice outweighs policy of not disturbing trial court's ruling, particularly when opposing party would suffer no injury or great inconvenience
• acknowledging that “[sjpecial circumstances sometimes exist ... in which the denial of a motion for continuance creates an injustice for the movant”
• explaining that sudden and unforeseeable stroke of employer on the day before trial necessitated continuance
• explaining that sudden and unforeseeable stroke of employer on the day before trial necessitated continuance
• determining that “defendant’s illness and consequent unavailability for trial were unforeseeable, unlike the circumstances in other cases in which the attorneys could have anticipated that their clients or witnesses would not be available for trial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).