OPINION
HILL, Justice.Betty Vautrain appeals from the dismissal of her cause against Dutch Garrett, Inc., Eldon E. Garrett and Edgar E. Garrett, the appellees, for want of prosecution and the denial of her motion to reinstate. In two points of error, she urges that the trial court erred in both actions.
We reverse and remand for further proceedings, because we find that the trial court abused its discretion in dismissing the cause for want of prosecution without any notice to Vautrain, and in failing to reinstate the cause upon her motion.
Vautrain’s original petition was first filed in December, 1978. Since that time she has been represented by four attorneys. The case has been on the docket of two other district courts and has been on the dismissal docket of both other courts. In July, 1983, an attorney for Vautrain had written the trial court, “[y]ou are hereby assured that this case will be finally disposed of by trial or otherwise on or before January 27, 1984: otherwise you may dismiss the case for want of prosecution without objection, and without further notice to my client or me.” Vautrain made no request for a trial setting after April, 1982. The case was transferred to the 352nd District Court in November, 1984.
The trial court notified Vautrain in the summer of 1985 to be prepared at a pre-trial hearing to show cause why the case should not be dismissed for want of prosecution. The pre-trial hearing was held, but the trial court did not dismiss the case for want of prosecution. The court then set the case for trial on November 3, 1986. Vautrain announced ready for trial. The case was not reached on November 3,1986, but was carried forward from day to day. Vautrain announced ready every Monday and Wednesday until advised by the clerk that such calling was not necessary. Vau-train requested two or three days notice of trial because of the need to get together expert witnesses, and the clerk said that she would try to give , such notice.
On January 12, 1987, the clerk’s office notified Vautrain’s counsel that the cause had been set for trial at 2:00 p.m. on that date. Counsel got the message at his Dallas office at 12:30 p.m. His office had originally been notified at about 11:20 a.m. His secretary had been unable to reach him before 12:30 p.m. because he was in court. Counsel testified that he attempted to reach Vautrain, that he loaded up his briefcase, and that he left his office at 1:15 p.m., reached the courthouse at 1:55, and was in the courthouse about 2:00. He apparently reached the courtroom shortly after 2:00 p.m., after the case had been called for trial, a motion to dismiss for want of prosecution had been granted, and a jury panel dismissed.
In point of error number one, Vautrain contends that the trial court erred in dismissing the cause for want of prosecution since the notice which she received of the January 12th trial was not in compliance with TEX.R.CIV.P. 245; she further contends that the notice was not reasonable or adequate and was therefore a violation of her right to due process as guaranteed to her by the fifth and fourteenth amendments of the United States Constitution and art. 1, section 19 of the Constitution of the State of Texas.
Rule 165a provides that before a case is dismissed for want of prosecution based upon a failure to attend trial, the party failing to attend is to be afforded a hearing as to the dismissal upon proper notice. TEX.R.CIV.P. 165a. Although the rule does not set forth the procedure in the event of a dismissal based upon the trial court’s inherent right to control its docket, we hold that fundamental due process would afford the right to a hearing in that event as well.
Vautrain’s case was dismissed for want of prosecution, based both upon her failure to attend trial and also upon the trial court’s inherent right to control its docket. *488Vautrain was not given any notice or hearing of the trial court’s intention to dismiss. We find such action of the trial court fails to comply with the requirements of rule 165a and with Vautrain’s right to due process as guaranteed to her by the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution and art. 1, section 19 of the Constitution of the State of Texas.
Vautrain had the right to be heard on the question of whether her suit should have been dismissed for want of prosecution. See Callahan v. Staples, 139 Tex. 8, 161 S.W.2d 489, 491 (Tex.Comm’n App.1942, opinion adopted). The trial court erred in not affording Vautrain a hearing before dismissing her cause for want of prosecution.
Garrett relies on the cases of Veterans’ Land Bd. v. Williams, 543 S.W.2d 89 (Tex.1976), Bevil v. Johnson, 157 Tex. 621, 307 S.W.2d 85 (1957), Balia v. Northeast Lincoln Mercury, 717 S.W.2d 183 (Tex.App.—Fort Worth 1986, no writ), Mora v. Texas Real Estate Com’n, 656 S.W.2d 566 (Tex.App.—Corpus Christi 1983, writ ref’d n.r. e.), Johnson v. J. W Const. Co., 717 S.W.2d 464 (Tex.App.—Fort Worth 1986, no writ), and Frank v. Canavati, 612 S.W.2d 221 (Tex.Civ.App.—San Antonio 1980, writ ref’d n.r.e.).
We have examined the authorities relied upon by Garrett and find that in all but one of those cases the record reflects that the plaintiff or movant was afforded a hearing on any motion for the dismissal of his petition or motion for want of prosecution. In the other case, Johnson v. J.W. Const. Co., the record was silent and therefore failed to sustain the contention of a party, who appealed by petition for writ of error, that the court dismissed her suit for want of prosecution without any notice. We sustain point of error number one.
Vautrain urges in point of error number two that the trial court erred in failing to reinstate her cause which had been dismissed for want of prosecution. Since the record reflects that Vautrain’s cause was dismissed for want of prosecution without notice to her of the motion to dismiss, the trial court abused its discretion in not reinstating the cause which it had improperly dismissed. We sustain point of error number two.
We reverse the trial court’s judgment dismissing this cause for want of prosecution and remand this cause to the trial court for further proceedings.
KELTNER, J., dissents.