Gracey v. West

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an attorney’s negligence in failing to prosecute a lawsuit was not a ground for setting aside a dismissal for want of prosecution
• stating client is bound by acts of his attorney, and attorney negligence is not sufficient ground to support bill of review
• rejecting plaintiff’s argument that her failure to diligently pursue her case was excused because “she was not negligent, but her attorney was the negligent one, and in such negligence he was failing to carry out her specific instructions to get a trial of the case.”
• “The judgment of dismissal of the cause for want of prosecution is not a judgment on the merits of the cause.”
• “The judgment of dismissal of the cause for want of prosecution is not a judgment on the merits of the cause.”
• attorney-client relationship is also an agency relationship

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).