Kenemer v. Arkansas Fuel Oil Company

1. Where an action is dismissed for want of prosecution on motion of defendant’s counsel, on the ground that when the case was called for trial the plaintiff did not answer present and ready for trial, the judgment of the court refusing to reinstate the case will not be held to be an abuse of discretion, even where it occurs fifteen minutes after the dismissal, where it is not made to appear in the bill of ex-eeptions why the plaintiff was not present and ready for trial on the call of the case and where there is no other reason why the ease should have been reinstated except the fact of…