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JEFFERSON COUNTY v. BARTON-DOUGLAS CONTR.

No. 62506.

282 N.W.2d 155 (1979)

COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, Iowa, a Political Subdivision of the State of Iowa, Appellant, v. BARTON-DOUGLAS CONTRACTORS, INC., an Iowa Corporation, AAA Mechanical Contractors, Inc., an Iowa Corporation, Wayne Mayhew, d/b/a Mayhew Electric, Merchants Mutual Bonding Company, an Iowa Corporation, Hawkeye-Security Insurance Company, an Iowa Corporation, Insurance Company of North America, a Pennsylvania Corporation, Design Associates, an Iowa Partnership, William V. Hukill, Bruce G. Alexander and Richard L. Doak, d/b/a Design Associates, and Moore-Bingham & Associates, Inc., an Iowa Corporation, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

August 29, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry A. Hanson and David E. Oslund, of Moore, Costello & Hart, St. Paul, Minn. and Edwin F. Kelly, County Atty., for appellant.

Jerry L. Lovelace, Iowa City, for appellee AAA Mechanical Contractors, Inc.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C. J., and LeGRAND, REES, McCORMICK and McGIVERIN, JJ.

McCORMICK, Justice.

We granted interlocutory appeal to determine whether the trial court erred in dissolving a temporary injunction restraining defendant AAA Mechanical Contractors, Inc., from submitting to arbitration its portion of the construction contract dispute involved in this multiparty litigation. We find that the dispute should be litigated rather than arbitrated so the entire controversy can be resolved in one forum. Therefore we reverse the trial court...

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