Campbell v. Pharr

REIF, Judge.

The corporate and individual defendants appeal the trial court’s vacation of its order dismissing this action. The dismissal was entered following the failure of plaintiffs’ counsel to appear or otherwise “show cause” at a dispositional hearing on January 25, 1995, as directed by an order of the trial court issued December 5, 1994. It is undisputed that (1) plaintiffs’ counsel received the December 5 order but did not appear because he was ill and homebound with the contagious disease of chicken pox, and (2) that his partner and co-counsel did not appear because of a jury trial in…