Schaeffer v. Hunter

The question presented in this case is whether the District Court erred in dismissing plaintiff’s petition for want of prosecution, and in overruling plaintiff’s motion to rescind the order of dismissal. We affirm the judgment of the District Court.

Harold W. Schaeffer, plaintiff and appellant herein, filed this action to recover damages for the breach of an alleged oral agreement between himself and B. K. Hunter, defendant and appellee herein. The oral agreement was allegedly made in 1964 in connection with a lease of real estate under which the plaintiff was the lessee and the defendant was…