Legal Opinion
Lazelle v. Lovelady
California Court of Appeal
Decided August 12, 1985No. F004228PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
IVEY, J. *
In this appeal from a judgment of dismissal, we are called on to decide whether the five-year period within which the action was required to be brought to trial was tolled while the case trailed on the civil active list and which version of Code of Civil Procedure section 1141.17 1 applies.
Susan P. Lazelle and Frank Mitchell (appellants) appeal from a judgment of dismissal entered against them and in favor of Clyde Wallace Lovelady and Five Star Trucking (respondents), as a result of appellants’ failure to bring the case to trial within five years from the date of the filing…
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