Court Opinion

ID: 9759517
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 00:18:58.536098+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:02.291556
License: Public Domain

David Newbern, Justice, concurring. I concur in the holding in this case because the word “costs” has a fixed meaning in Arkansas practice. Grayson v. Arrington, 225 Ark. 922, 926, 286 S.W.2d 501, 503 (1956). This raises some doubt whether, in adopting Ark. R. Civ. P. 68 based on the parallel federal rule, the purpose of which was to encourage the early settlement of cases, we considered the question whether “costs” has the same meaning in the federal practice as in Arkansas practice. We will encourage our Committee on Rules of Pleading, Practice, and Procedure (Civil) to consider and advise us whether a change to the rule, perhaps substituting the word “expenses” for the word “costs,” may be advisable.