Salter v. Chatham County

Deen, Presiding Judge.

1. It is now firmly established that the "automatic dismissal” rule in Code § 3-512 means that the expiration of five years after the taking of the last written order renders the litigation entirely lifeless for all purposes. We quote from Milam v. Mojonnier Bros. Co., 135 Ga. App. 208, 210 (217 SE2d 355) as the latest reaffirmance of this construction: "The 'five-year rule’ is mandatory and places squarely upon the plaintiff the duty to comply with the law and to obtain a written order of continuance or other written order at some time during a five-year period and to…