Hope Flooring & Lumber Co. v. Boulden

JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.

This case involves a somewhat important question of Arkansas procedural law, which had not been settled by the courts of that State when the appeal was argued to us, but which was then the subject of pending litigation between other parties in those courts. Under the circumstances, we deemed it advisable to withhold our disposition, until expression had been made upon the question in that litigation by the Arkansas Supreme Court. That Court has now spoken. Winfrey & Carlile v. Nickles, Adm’r, 270 S.W.2d 923.

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