A. O. Smith Harvestore Products, Inc. v. Burnside

Darrell Hickman, Justice.

Thomas Burnside, a dairyman, obtained a default judgment for $178,000 against the appellant, A. O. Smith Harvestore Products, Inc., a non-resident corporation not authorized to do business in Arkansas. We set the judgment aside because of no proper service and for that reason need not discuss the other issues raised.

Both parties rely on the service statute, Ark. Stat. Ann. § 27-340, but it was replaced by the Uniform Interstate and International Procedure Act, §§ 27-2501—2507 (Repl. 1979), which in turn, at least in part, is identical to ARCP Rule 4 (e). See Marchant…