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PETITE v. ESTATE OF PAPACHRIST

[No. 138, September Term, 1958.]

219 Md. 173 (1959)

148 A.2d 377

PETITE v. ESTATE OF PAPACHRIST, DECEASED, SOPHIA PAPACHRIST, ADMINISTRATRIX

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 18, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. Sydney Becker, with whom was G. Howlett Cobourn on the brief, for appellant.

No brief and no appearance for appellee.

The cause was argued before HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ., and HENRY, JR., Chief Judge of the First Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.

HORNEY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Circuit Court for Harford County, by its order of July 11, 1958, refused to reinstate on the trial docket a cause of action which had been "dismissed for want of prosecution" by the clerk of court pursuant to the provisions of a local rule. The plaintiff below appealed. No brief was filed in this Court on behalf of the appellee.

Chapter 719 of the Acts of 1939, which was merely declaratory of the rule making...

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