F.N. Fausing Trading ApS v. Estate of Barbouti

OPINION

O’CONNOR, Justice.

This Court is asked to decide if the trial court committed reversible error in striking the plaintiff’s pleadings and dismissing the case after a representative of the plaintiff did not appear for a deposition. We find it did and reverse the judgment and remand the cause.

The record in this case consists of a 615-page transcript composed of pleadings, motions, orders, the deposition of Frede N. Fausing, documents produced at his deposition, Fausing’s response to interrogatories, and the transcription of the hearing on the motion to quash the notice of deposition, which…