DUNKIN v. CITIZENS BANK OF JONESBORO

No. 86-225.

727 S.W.2d 138 (1987)

291 Ark. 588

Kathy DUNKIN, Appellant, v. CITIZENS BANK OF JONESBORO, Administrator of the Estate of Everett Ercell Dunkin, Deceased, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

April 6, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Everett, Lepanto, Barrett, Wheatley, Smith & Deacon by Paul D. McNeill, Jonesboro, for appellant.

Lohnes T. Tiner, Harrisburg, Chet Dunlap, Trumann, for appellee.


HOLT, Chief Justice.

At issue in this appeal is the obligation of a defendant in a wrongful death case to respond to interrogatories or to assert properly her objection on the basis that her responses might be self-incriminating. The trial court ordered the defendant, who is the appellant here, to respond, and, when she refused he struck her answer in which she had pled self-defense. This appeal is from the order striking the answer. We affirm.

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