Sturgeon v. American Family Life Assurance Co.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
1Opinion of the Court
David Newbern, Judge.
This case was appealed to the Arkansas Supreme Court and assigned to the Court of Appeals pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 29(3).
We are asked to decide whether an order characterizing a complaint as one in contract and not in tort is a final order and thus whether it is appealable. The complaint was stated iii several paragraph, altrgdsig these theories i» the alternative. If we say the ©'««¡let' C uppoakble, then we are asked to decide the closely related qívwtion whether the complaint staler! a cause of action ire tort, and whether objections to in-tmugatories and…
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