Cansler v. Grove Manufacturing Co.

How later courts describe this case

• when a federal court dismisses an action without prejudice for failure to prosecute, the dismissal “leaves the parties in the same legal position as if no suit had ever been filed”
• in view of the plaintiff’s sophistication, education, and admission that he read the materials, the court was not persuaded that reliance on the oral statements [made subsequent to the issuance of a written perspective] was justified