Court Opinion

ID: 9856455
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:47:48.883713+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:38:48.129398
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BISTLINE, Justice,
specially concurring.
The result achieved in the Court’s opinion is sound, and I concur therein. The motion to vacate the dismissal should have been granted. Bunn v. Bunn, 99 Idaho 710, 587 P.2d 1245 (1978); Stoner v. Turner, 73 Idaho 117, 247 P.2d 469 (1952). Obviously the trial court denied the motion on a conclusion that the showing was insufficient. While the supporting affidavit might have been more affirmatively worded, a dismissal for lack of prosecution should almost automatically be vacated where counsel states that he cannot find the notice of pending dismissal in his office and cannot recall having seen it. It is my belief that the trial bench generally accords with the philosophy that even though an item is mailed, an attorney will ordinarily believe another attorney who states that he did not receive it. Cunningham v. Bundy, 100 Idaho 456, 600 P.2d 132 (1979).