First Natl. Bank of Houston v. Fox

Mr. Judge SHARP

of the Commission of Appeals, delivered the opinion for the court.

This suit originated in one of the civil district courts of Harris county and results from the dismissal of a suit filed in that court on the 5th day of June, 1919. On August 27, 1928, the trial court dismissed the case for want of prosecution. No motion or pleading of any character was filed in the case within thirty days from and after the order of August 27, 1928. A motion to reinstate, bearing no file mark, was placed with the papers in the case about January 7, 1929. The motion to reinstate had been handed…