Villarreal v. San Antonio Truck & Equipment

which Justice HECHT, Justice OWEN, Justice ABBOTT, Justice HANKINSON, Justice O’NEILL, and Justice GONZALES, joined.

The issue presented is whether the standard notice of dismissal used by the district courts of Bexar County, which warms that a case will be dismissed “if no announcement is made” at the dismissal hearing, adequately apprises parties of the trial court’s intent to dismiss for want of prosecution in the exercise of its inherent power. Because we hold that it does not, we reverse the judgment of the court of appeals, 974 S.W.2d 275, and remand this cause to the trial court for…