Donaldson v. Buckner

This was an original application for a writ of mandate, by which plaintiff sought to compel the defendant district judge to reopen and reinstate a civil action, in the District Court of the Seventh Judicial District, for Canyon County, to renew a deficiency judgment in a case entitled J. L. Donaldson, Plaintiff, v. Orin M. Henry et al, Defendants.

The case was dismissed by the trial judge under a court rule of some twenty years standing, to the effect that a case may be dismissed when no action has been taken or paper filed in the cause for more than one year. The rule under which the order…