Petite v. Estate of Papachrist

The Circuit Court for Harford County, by its order of July 11, 1958, refused to reinstate on the trial docket a cause of action which had been “dismissed for want of prosecution” by the clerk of court pursuant to the provisions of a local rule. The plaintiff below appealed. No brief was filed in this Court on behalf of the appellee.

Chapter 719 of the Acts of 1939, which was merely declaratory of the rule making powers of the courts of this State, specifically conferred on the circuit courts of the counties power to adopt rules governing the practice and procedure in such courts so long as…