Looney v. Gibraltar Savings Ass'n

REYNOLDS, Chief Justice.

Jack Looney, Jr. and his wife, Elizabeth Looney, bring this appeal from the trial court’s denial of their motion to reinstate their cause of action, which the court had dismissed for want of prosecution. The Looneys’ reinstatement motion was denied because the court, albeit finding all facts mandating reinstatement, ruled that it had lost jurisdiction of the matter. Determining that the court had jurisdiction at the time it signed the order denying the reinstatement motion, we reverse and render.

On 29 June 1981, the Looneys, represented by attorney R.C. Hamilton, filed…