Case ID: ark_286/html/0169-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Darrell Hickman, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

David POTTER v. Betty POTTER
    85-25
    690 S.W.2d 124
    Supreme Court of Arkansas
    Opinion delivered June 3, 1985
    
      Steel & Steel, by; George E. Steel, Jr., for appellant.
    
      Smith, Jernigan & Smith, by: Robert D. Smith, for appellee.
   Darrell Hickman, Justice.

What the appellant calls a petition for a temporary restraining order and injunction is, in effect, merely a request for the trial judge to change his prior ruling.

The parties were divorced in 1981, and we modified that decree in Potter v. Potter, 280 Ark. 38, 655 S.W.2d 382 (1983). The parties’ residence was ordered sold and Mrs. Potter bought it. The sale to her was confirmed; the confirmation is the subject of a separate appeal.

The appellant moved for permission to occupy the house during the pending of that appeal since Mrs. Potter had moved out and to enjoin her from renting the premises to a third party. The judge denied the request without a hearing. Although Potter characterized his prayer as one for injunctive relief, in effect, the motion asked the judge to change his prior ruling which gave Mrs. Potter temporary occupancy, ordered the home sold and confirmed the sale. The appellant’s request is not a final and appealable order as defined in Ark. R. App. P. 2. If it were, all orders before, during and after a divorce decree could be appealed.

Appeal dismissed.