Lake Meredith Reservoir Co. v. Amity Mutual Irrigation Co.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that after a 87-year delay, defendant would be prejudiced because the substantive law had changed and fact witnesses would no longer be available
• explaining that after a 37-year delay, defendant would be prejudiced because the substantive law had changed and fact witnesses would no longer be available
• trial court has discretion to relieve a party of a stipulation upon timely application
• trial court exists “primarily to afford a forum to settle litigable matters between disputing parties”
• “The district courts have the inherent power to dismiss a claim for failure to prosecute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).