Laurel Canning Co. v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

This is an appeal from the ruling of the lower Court in refusing to transfer the case from the Stet Docket to the Trial Docket of that Court for the March Term, 1910. The Court held that the case had abated under one of its rules, which is as follows: “The Clerk shall prepare and keep a Stet Docket and shall enter thereon, at the end of each term of Court, all such causes from the Trial and Appeal Dockets as shall have been thereon undisposed of for four successive terms. That after a case shall have remained on said Stet Docket for four continuous terms it shall abate, and no further action…