Brown v. Iowa District Court for Polk County

LeGRAND, Justice.

This is a certiorari action brought with our permission to test an order of the Honorable Gibson C. Holliday reinstating a case which had been previously dismissed under the provisions of Rule 215.1, Rules of Civil Procedure. We sustain the writ and reinstate the order of dismissal.

This matter had its inception when Knapp Real Estate Sales, Inc. filed a breach-of-contract action against Marian Brown, Cecelia Franklin, and Dr. Anthony Brown, who are the plaintiffs in this certio-rari action. On August 8, 1975, when the case had been pending almost two years, the clerk of court…