State ex rel. Shields v. Southport Petroleum Corp. of Delaware

REGAN, Judge.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, Fred Shields, from a judgment in favor of the defendant, Southport Petroleum Corporation of Delaware, dismissing his suit for failure to take any steps in the prosecution thereof for a period of five years.

This suit was filed by the plaintiff on April 6, 1942. ^Thereafter several supplemental petitions were filed by the plaintiff and an effort was made to place the case on the trial docket, although the defendant had not appeared herein in response to the demands of the plaintiff. On September 9, 1952, plaintiff’s original counsel withdrew from…