Planchon v. Local Police & Fire Retirement System

| Harold Planchón filed an appeal with the Arkansas Court of Appeals. 1 The record was lodged in December 2013. However, Planchón died before the case was submitted. As a result, Planchon’s attorney filed a motion for revivor and substitution, or, alternatively, to remand to the circuit court for entry of such an order. We accepted this motion as a separate case. Because there is no rule or statute in place that would allow this court to revive and substitute the appellant, we remand to the circuit court.

No court rule describes how to revive an action and substitute a party on appeal.…