Case Name: The STATE of Texas et al. v. Tom ROTELLO et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1973-07-11
Citations: 497 S.W.2d 290
Docket Number: No. B-3987
Parties: The STATE of Texas et al. v. Tom ROTELLO et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 497
Pages: 290–291

Head Matter:
The STATE of Texas et al. v. Tom ROTELLO et al.
No. B-3987.
Supreme Court of Texas.
July 11, 1973.
John L. Hill, Atty. Gen., Alvin K. James, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, for petitioners.
Sears & Burns, C. Charles Dippel, Houston, for respondents.

Opinion:
ON APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF ERROR
PER CURIAM.
This case, was dismissed by the trial court for want of prosecution, and plaintiff sued out a writ of error from the Court of Civil Appeals. The intermediate court reversed the judgment of the trial court and remanded the cause. Tex.Civ.App., 492 S.W.2d 347. In our opinion the record affirmatively shows that plaintiff and his attorney were not given proper notice prior to dismissal of the case. The application for writ of error is refused, no re-vesible error, but we are not to be understood as approving the holding of the Court of Civil Appeals, if it did so hold, that a case may not properly be dismissed for want of prosecution unless it has first been set for trial, or that the failure to set for trial affects the showing that must be made to obtain a reversal when the order of dismissal is subjected to a direct attack by appeal or writ of error.