Buckner v. Cowling

Robert Buckner appeals from the trial court’s nonfinal orders granting Janet and Jerry Cowling’s motion to set aside an order of dismissal and granting the Cowlings’ motion for extension of time to serve summons and complaint. Buckner raises two issues on appeal, only one of which merits discussion. He argues that the trial judge erred in ruling on those two motions, when, two days later, the judge recused himself on his own initiative. Buckner contends that the court should not have ruled on the Cowlings’ motions because the grounds for recusal were known to the court at the time it entered…