Danforth Memorial Hospital v. Harris

POPE, Justice.

Relators have petitioned this court to order the trial judge to vacate an order, which according to relators, reinstated a cause after the court had lost jurisdiction under Rule 165a. 1 We conditionally grant the mandamus.

These proceedings grew out of an action asserted by Robert Medina and his wife against our three relators, Johnson Radiological Group, Danforth Memorial Hospital, and Jesse Johnson. After the cause had remained on the docket for two years, the cause was placed on the drop docket, and it was dismissed for want of prosecution on July 5,1977. The trial court, on…