Moore v. Armour & Co., Inc.

REYNOLDS, Chief Justice.

This appeal requires us to determine whether the trial court clearly abused its discretion in dismissing for want of prosecution, and refusing to reinstate, Johnny Moore’s personal injury action filed eighteen years earlier against Armour & Company, Inc. and its former employee, Joe Lee Browning. Concluding that the trial court did not clearly abuse its discretion, we will affirm the judgment of dismissal.

Our review of Moore’s appeal to challenge, with four points of error, the court’s exercise of discretion begins with the recognition that a trial court not only has…