Coots v. Bandera

| Appellants appeal from the circuit court’s grant of appellees’ motion to dismiss their complaint. On appeal, they argue that the circuit court erred in failing to retroactively apply an. amendment, effective July 1, 2014, clarifying Arkansas Rule of Civil Procedure 4(i). We reverse.

Appellants were involved in a motor-vehicle collision with a vehicle owned by appellees, but driven by Marco Antonio Duran-Duran, in Benton County, Arkansas, on August 22, 2009. Appellants filed their complaint on August 21, 2012 (“first complaint”). Appellants filed a motion for extension of time to complete…