Hegwein v. Shell Oil Co.

STEPHAN, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant William Hegwein brought suit against defendant-respondent Shell Oil Company for invasion of privacy and trespass on his business property, a gasoline station. After numerous and time consuming delays in responding to defendant’s efforts at pretrial discovery, which we do not detail here, defendant filed supplementary interrogatories and a request for production of documents. When no response to these discovery efforts was forthcoming, defendant filed a motion to dismiss. In response to that motion, the trial court entered an order stating that…