Cupples Farms Partnership v. Forrest City Production Credit Ass'n

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

Cupples Farms, a partnership, appeals from an order denying its motion to intervene in ongoing litigation as a matter of right and its petition to be subrogated to the cross-claim of Forrest City Production Credit Association against Cargill, Inc. We agree with Farms that the circuit court’s order was a final order which determined the rights of Farms in the litigation. Farms, however, failed to establish a right to subrogation; nor was its motion to intervene timely. For these reasons, we affirm the circuit court’s decision.

In 1979, a separate partnership, Cupples…