Klopfenstein v. Rohlfing

This cause arrived in the Kent circuit on appeal from a judgment, entered for plaintiffs against defendant, in the municipal court of Grand Rapids. The appeal was perfected in 1955. March 4, 1957, a general order was entered in circuit providing “that each of said causes hereinafter set forth (including the above) be and the same is hereby dismissed for want of prosecution, but without prejudice.” Plaintiffs later moved to vacate such order for reasons presently considered. Judge Searl, of the Kent circuit, prepared and filed an opinion by which the quoted order of dismissal was held invalid.…