Barish v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County

*954OPINION

CONNER, Judge.

(Filed with concurrence of participating judges)

The principal issue presented is whether the trial court erred by refusing to grant the plaintiff-appellant, Sylvia Barish,1 a continuance in order to seek counsel after the trial court had permitted her former lawyer to withdraw four days before trial. Plaintiff also contends the trial judge procedurally erred in dismissing the plaintiff’s complaint pursuant to T.R.C.P. 41.02 when she appeared pro se and offered no proof on the date of trial.

Mrs. Barish filed suit on May 17, 1979, claiming that certain of her improved…