Talbot v. Talbot

The matter before us in this interlocutory appeal, duly granted, involves the authority of the trial court under rule 2Í5.1 of the Iowa Rules of Civil Procedure. The trial court refused to dismiss plaintiff’s proceeding in equity for an accounting and for dissolution of a partnership for want of prosecution under that rule, although it appears without dispute that the case had been on file for more than a year prior to July 15, 1962, and that the issues had been formed when the clerk of court gave the following notice to all counsel of record:

“You are each hereby notified that the petition in…