Frank v. Canavati

OPINION

KLINGEMAN, Justice.

The sole question on this appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion in dismissing plaintiff’s suit for want of prosecution and in thereafter denying plaintiff’s motion to reinstate.

Plaintiff, Mauricio Frank, on November 9, 1976, filed suit in Webb County, Texas, for damages for the alleged unlawful removal of personal property by the defendant, Jesus Canavati, from premises owned by the plaintiff. Defendant filed an answer on November 11, 1976. According to the court’s docket sheet no action was taken thereafter on the case until June 14,1979, a period…