Nickerson v. Iowa State Traveling Men's Ass'n

This is an appeal from an order of the district court of Polk county reinstating an action brought by the plaintiff against the defendant, in which the original petition was filed September 22, 1936. The action was upon a membership policy in the defendant corporation and after a motion for cost bond, which was sustained and bond filed, the defendant, on December 17, 1936, answered the petition and the case was at issue.

The order dismissing the case for lack of attention on July 6, 1937, which was a general order including this and a large number of other cases, was as follows:

“In harmony…