Miller v. Hild

BECK, Judge:

Appellant, plaintiff below, appeals from an order dismissing his case for want of prosecution. The Order appealed from is based on a local Indiana County procedural rule limiting the time within which civil cases must be certified ready for trial and on a similar rule of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court then in effect.

The matter had been commenced by praecipe for writ of summons in February 1978. At the time of dismissal in November, 1980, no complaint had been filed nor had any other steps been taken by way of discovery toward the resolution of the matter. 1 The court’s decision is…