Bevil v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the placement of a case on the dismissal docket on a court's own motion is nothing but an exercise of the trial court's inherent authority to control its docket
• describing judicial discretion in a civil lawsuit, noting no statutory authority
• question on review of dismissal for want of prosecution is whether trial court clearly abused its discretion
• “The matter rests in the sound discretion of the trial court. It is not an unbridled discretion, but a judicial discretion subject to review. Upon review, the question is whether there was a clear abuse of discretion by the trial cotut.”
• same result for a delay of eight years

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).