Court Opinion

ID: 7820392
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-07 17:52:21.040978+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:30:43.472762
License: Public Domain

John A. Fogleman, Justice, concurring. I fully agree with the majority opinion in this case. I cannot agree, however, with the statement in the dissenting opinion that the majority rejected the trial court’s holding that a North Carolina contract was involved. To the contrary, the result reached is based entirely upon the assumption that the Arkansas law applied because, and only because, that is the law most favorable to appellant. As I view the record in this summary judgment procedure, the documents and affidavits filed failed to establish that the contract was either an Arkansas contract or a North Carolina one. But if the action of the trial court was correct for any reason, we should affirm, so long as the basis for affirmance was in issue in the trial court. Here the question whether the contract was usurious under the Arkansas constitutional provision limiting interest to 10% per annum was definitely an issue.