§ 16-60-116 - Other actions -- County where defendant resides or is summoned -- Effective service. - Arkansas Statutes

16-60-116. Other actions -- County where defendant resides or is summoned -- Effective service.

(a) Every other action may be brought in any county in which the defendant or one (1) of several defendants resides or is summoned.

(b) Where any action embraced in subsection (a) of this section is against a single defendant, the plaintiff shall not be entitled to judgment against him or her on the service of a summons in any other county than that in which the action is brought, unless he or she resided in that county at the commencement of the action or unless, having appeared in the action, he or she fails to object before the trial to its proceeding against him or her.

(c) Where any action embraced in subsection (a) of this section is against several defendants, the plaintiff shall not be entitled to judgment against any of them on the service of summons in another county than that in which the action is brought, where no one of the defendants is summoned in that county or resided in that county at the commencement of the action, or where, if any of them resided or were summoned in that county, the action is discontinued or dismissed as to them, or judgment in the action is rendered in their favor, unless the defendant summoned in another county, having appeared in the action, failed to object before the judgment to its proceeding against him.

(d) The objection that one (1) of several defendants was summoned in another county shall be deemed to be waived if he or she appears, unless it is made before judgment as to that defendant.

(e) If after the commencement of an action in the county of the defendant's residence, he or she moves therefrom, the service of a summons upon him or her in any other county shall have the same effect as if it had been made in the county from which he or she moved.