Opinion

Riddell Flying Service v. Callahan

  • 90 Ark. App. 388
  • 206 S.W.3d 284
Court
Court of Appeals of Arkansas
Filed
Apr 6, 2005
Status
Published
Author
Roaf
On the bench
John B. Robbins
Cited by
8 cases
Authority
More cited than 6.9%

The opinion

Andree Layton Roaf, Judge, concurring. I agree with the majority’s discussion concerning affirmance of this case. However, I would affirm without addressing the merits based upon Riddell Flying Service’s failure to bring up a record sufficient for us to examine the relationship between the United States Forest Service (USFS) and the Arkansas Forestry Commission (AFC), pursuant to the receipt of “FEMA” funds. The only mention of the substance of this relationship in the addendum before us is contained in the ALJ and dissenting commissioners’ opinions, where there is reference to a “Wildlife Abatement Plan” prepared by USFS and AFC and excerpts from this plan which reference a “cooperative agreement” between AFC and the USFS, and the stipulations regarding the plan entered into by the parties. It may be that these excerpts constitute the substance of the plan with regard to the issue of whether AFC is a contractor of USFS. However, this court has never considered such as a substitute for the document or contract under review. Nat’l Enterprises, Inc. v. Rea, 329 Ark. 332 , 947 S.W.2d 378 (1997). In this case it is the agreement itself, and not what the ALJ and a dissenting commissioner choose to say about it or excerpt from it, that the appellant should have provided. Moreover, we do not go to the

record to reverse a case. Russell v. State, 85 Ark. App. 468 , 157 S.W.3d 561 (2004); Camp v. State, 66 Ark. App. 134 , 991 S.W.2d 611 (1999).

Baker, J., joins.

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