Thomas v. Robinson

Travis Thomas asks this court to conclude that the circuit court erred when it entered a default judgment against him because the court never acquired jurisdiction over the personal-injury complaint that Phyllis and Sylvester Robinson filed against him. The jurisdiction question itself turns on whether the Robinsons satisfied *907the service-by-warning-order process prescribed by Arkansas Rule of Civil Procedure 4(f)(1) (2017). If they did not satisfy the rule, then the court never acquired jurisdiction over Thomas. If the court did not acquire jurisdiction, then it could not have entered a valid…