Barkley v. Cullum

Conley Byrd, Justice.

This appeal by John Barkley, Jackie Bowden and Earl Gibbon Transport, Inc., from a probate court order permitting appellee Rayburn Cullum to resign as personal representative of his deceased wife’s estate, arises out of a venue race. See Ark. Stat. Ann. § 27-610 and § 27-611 (Repl. 1962). The facts show that on June 30, 1971, Sandra Cullum and Jerry R. Thorne were escorts for a mobile home being towed by a tractor owned by Chandler Trailer Convoy, Inc., and driven by Edward W. Byers on U. S. Highway 167 in Calhoun County. A collision there occurred between the mobile home…