Bevans v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co.

ANNABELLE CLINTON IMBER, Justice.

The Arkansas Court of Appeals certified the instant case to this court on a jurisdictional question: whether the circuit court’s order was final and appealable under our rules of civil procedure, when the appellant/defendant Jane Bevans nonsuited all of her compulsory counterclaims against the appellee/plaintiff Deutsche Bank, and the circuit court’s subsequent order only addressed Deutsche Bank’s claims against Bevans. We conclude that in such circumstances the circuit court’s order is not a final, appealable order, and we dismiss Bevans’s appeal.

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