Lawyers on both sides of a lawsuit over a platform that collapsed into the Arkansas River have agreed to dismiss a court action over preserving evidence.

A motion filed Wednesday asks U.S. District Judge James Moody to dismiss the suit that demanded Oscar Renda Contracting Inc. of Roanoke, Texas, preserve the fallen platform. Skip Henry, an attorney for Oscar Renda, says the company will keep the platform in storage.

On April 2, the platform plunged into the river from an Interstate 430 bridge. Searchers later found the bodies of two men working on the platform. A third man is presumed dead.

The wife of Eleazar Lopez, the man still missing, has filed a federal lawsuit in Texas over the collapse. That lawsuit will continue. George Wise, an Arkansas lawyer representing the wife, says the evidence case became moot after the Texas suit was filed.

This article was published Wednesday, May 21, 2008.

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