Hone v. Hanafin

How courts have described this case

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• noting that 04-25-00380-CV “a reasonable explanation is ‘any plausible statement of circumstances indicating that failure to file within the [specified] period was not deliberate or intentional, but was the result of inadvertence, mistake or mischance’”
• discussing what constitutes a reasonable explanation and explaining that, if the appellant offers a plausible good faith justification for filing her notice of appeal when she did, then absent intentional misconduct, the explanation is reasonable
• “[W]e are unwilling to hold that a party confused about the law is prohibited from having such confusion serve as a reasonable explanation[.]”
• “[I]f a motion for reinstatement is not decided by signed written order within seventy-five days after the judgment is signed . . . the motion shall be deemed overruled by operation of law.”

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