N-S-W Corp. v. Snell

POPE, Justice.

N-S-W Corporation seeks a mandamus ordering the trial judge to set aside an order that reinstated a cause upon the docket. It insists the order is void since the judge ordered the reinstatement more than thirty days after the date of its dismissal order and after the court had lost jurisdiction over its prior order. We conditionally grant the writ of mandamus.

H. R. George Gwyn, III sued NS-W Corporation for damages for breach of a contract. On May 5, 1977, the trial court dismissed the action for want of prosecution. On May 25, Gwyn filed his motion to reinstate the cause. Under…