Wallingford v. Trinity Universal Insurance Co.

OPINION

JAMES T. CAMPBELL, Justice.

The trial court dismissed the “old act” 1 workers’ compensation case of appellant Cheryl Sue Wallingford for want of prosecution. Thereafter, she received notice of the dismissal, timely filed a motion to reinstate, and participated in the hearing of her motion. Despite indication of the trial court’s intention to reinstate, no order of reinstatement was signed. After the court’s plenary jurisdiction expired, it sustained Trinity’s motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. Wallingford timely appealed. Finding the trial court lost jurisdiction when no order…