Legal Opinion

Discover Bank v. POMMELL

Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Decided September 3, 2008No. CA 08-54Published

1Opinion of the Court

Sam Bird, Judge.

Appellant Discover Bank appeals from an order of the Poinsett County Circuit Court granting appel-lee’s motion for directed verdict and dismissing appellant’s complaint with prejudice. The issue on appeal is whether the circuit court abused its discretion in failing to allow appellant to introduce certain evidence under a statutory exception to hearsay. We hold that the circuit court did abuse its discretion, and we reverse the court’s order dismissing appellant’s complaint.

This case began when appellant sued appellee Patricia Pom-mell for credit-card debt allegedly owed by…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Metzgar v. RodgersCourt of Appeals of Arkansas · 2003
  2. Phelan v. Discover BankSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2005
  3. Lovell v. BeaversSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1999

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