Court Opinion

ID: 9539445
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:04:25.394507+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:58:49.615214
License: Public Domain

BURKE, Justice,
dissenting.
I dissent. On the record that is before us, I fail to see how it can be said that the superior court abused its discretion.
*1257Some consideration should be given to the defendant’s plight. By the time the superior court ordered the case dismissed, Siegfried had been under the cloud of the complaint for more than two years. The plaintiff’s case, however, remained in its infancy: despite the additional time given to her, “to prepare her case for trial,” Johnson managed to do little more than amend her complaint and have the amended complaint and summons served upon the defendant. The notion that Johnson pursued her claim with reasonable diligence, during this or any other period to date, is nonsense.
The same cloud has now remained over the defendant’s head for more than three ■years, and there is still no indication that the plaintiff’s case is any more ready for trial today than on the day it was filed. The superior court’s dismissal order should, therefore, be affirmed.