Phillips v. Jacobs Ex Rel. Jacobs

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

This case comes to us as a one-brief case, the appellee Karen Jacobs having failed to respond. The dispositive issue is whether the trial court’s failure to enter an order disposing of the appellee’s motion for a new trial within thirty days divested the trial court of jurisdiction to act on the motion thereafter.

We hold that it did, and we reverse the trial court’s order granting a new trial entered more than thirty days after the motion was filed.

The facts are these. The appellee Jacobs sued the appellant Phillips for damages resulting from an automobile accident on…