Mississippi Supreme Court, 1933

Stovall v. Graves-Ramsey Motor Co.

Stovall v. Graves-Ramsey Motor Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court · Decided September 18, 1933 · Ethridge
149 So. 733; 167 Miss. 201; 1933 Miss. LEXIS 127 (Southern Reporter)

Stovall v. Graves-Ramsey Motor Co.

Opinion of the Court

*202 Ethridge, P. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appeal in this case was dismissed for want of prosecution on January 30, 1933. A motion to reinstate was filed by appellant’s present counsel on June 1, 1933, which motion was sustained by the court. A suggestion of error to this ruling, and a motion to vacate the judgment reinstating the cause was filed, and the matter was continued by order on the minutes.

When the case was dismissed on January 30, 1933, and that term of court ended on the first Monday in March, 1933, the power of the court to reinstate, or to have any further control over the matter, was at an end. Lane & Standley v. Wheless, 46 Miss. 666.

Consequently, we erred in reinstating the appeal, and the suggestion of error is sustained and the appeal dismissed.

Sustained.

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