Opinion ID: 1798544
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Heading: Denial of an Adjournment.

Text: One of the grounds advanced by the appellant in this court to support her demand for a new trial is the fact that the trial court refused to grant her request for a continuance. That request had been based upon the fact that the appellant's counsel had not been retained until that very morning. Counsel sought additional time to familiarize himself with the case and to prepare for the hearing. This is the type of request with which a judge is ordinarily sympathetic. However, in the instant case, as Judge WHITE carefully pointed out, such counsel was at least the sixth in a long list of attorneys who have at one time or another represented the claimant. The court observed that there had already been many previous continuances. Judge WHITE also noted that the estate had incurred substantial expense in connection with having its expert witness present and ready to testify. In our opinion, under these circumstances it was an entirely proper exercise of the trial court's discretion to deny a last-moment request for an adjournment. Schwarz v. Strache (1957), 275 Wis. 42, 80 N. W. (2d) 797.