FIDELITY ACCEPTANCE CORP. v. BROWN

No. 13063.

382 So.2d 1007 (1980)

FIDELITY ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION v. Wallace R. BROWN and Vera P. Brown, aka Verat Brown.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

January 21, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maurice E. Clark, Jr., New Orleans, for plaintiff, appellant.

Jacqueline Carr, Slidell, for defendants, appellees.

Before COVINGTON, LOTTINGER and COLE, JJ.


COLE, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals a judgment rendered by the trial court upon its own motion dismissing this suit, with prejudice. The issue is whether plaintiff's failure to appear on the scheduled trial date is sufficient cause for such a dismissal considering that defendants' counsel also failed to timely appear and the record is devoid of any meaningful fact other than counsel for plaintiff's explanation that the failure...

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