Legal Opinion
Marchant v. Peeples
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided November 9, 1981No. 81-129PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Darrell Hickman, Justice.
Winnie Marchant, an Arkansas resident, filed a malpractice suit in Little Rock against Robert Peeples, a Texas lawyer. She claimed that he was negligent in allowing a default judgment to be entered against her in a divorce suit filed by her husband in Texas. Peeples was served in Texas through Arkansas’s “long arm” statute. He filed a motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. After hearing testimony from both parties, the trial court ruled that Peeples did not have the necessary “minimum contacts” in Arkansas to bestow personal jurisdiction on the Arkansas court. On…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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