Coven v. Dailey

POWERS, Justice.

Boni Coven appeals the trial court’s dismissal of her suit against Larry Dailey and Glynda Mints, deceased, seeking to recover money damages for personal injuries sustained in a one-car accident on March 14, 1979. We will affirm the judgment of the trial court.

The trial court, on its own motion and after hearing, dismissed appellant’s suit for want of prosecution, under the court’s inherent power to do so. See Veterans’ Land Board v. Williams, 543 S.W.2d 89, 90 (Tex.1976); Bevil v. Johnson, 157 Tex. 621, 307 S.W.2d 85, 87 (Tex.1957); cf., Tex.R.Civ.P.Ann. 165a (1979). While…