DUTTON-LAINSON CO. v. McGEE

No. 76-80.

542 S.W.2d 739 (1976)

DUTTON-LAINSON COMPANY, Appellant, v. Lynn Williams McGEE and National Bank of Commerce, Executors, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas, Division 1.

Rehearing Denied November 29, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rubens, Rubens & Rainey by Kent J. Rubens, West Memphis, Winslow Drummond, Little Rock, and Robert M. Fargarson, Memphis, Tenn., for appellant.

Hale, Fogleman & Rogers, West Memphis, Holcomb, Dunbar, Connell, Merkel, Tollison & Khayat, Clarksdale, Miss., for appellees.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

This is a products-liability action for wrongful death, in which service upon the appellant Dutton-Lainson Company (one of two defendants) was obtained in Nebraska under the long-arm statute. Ark.Stat.Ann., Title 27, Ch. 25 (Supp.1975). This appeal is from an order finding Dutton-Lainson to be in default because (a) its first pleading, a motion for an additional 15 days in which to plead further, was not signed by a resident Arkansas...

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