EPISCOPAL HOUSING CORP. v. FED. INS. CO.

20969

273 S.C. 181 (1979)

255 S.E.2d 451

EPISCOPAL HOUSING CORPORATION, Respondent, v. FEDERAL INSURANCE COMPANY, McCrory-Sumwalt Construction Co., Inc., also known as McCrory Construction Company, Inc., and Lafaye Associates, Inc., Defendants, Of Which McCrory-Sumwalt Construction Company, Inc., also known as McCrory Construction Company, Inc., is Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

May 23, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smith, Currie & Hancock, Atlanta, Ga., and W. Shell Suber, Jr., of Graydon & Suber, Columbia, for appellant.

Charles B. Bowers and William H. Smith, Jr., Columbia, and Leatherwood, Walker, Todd & Mann, Greenville, for respondent.


May 23, 1979.

NESS, Justice:

This appeal is from an order requiring the parties to submit to a consolidated arbitration proceeding. We affirm.

The owner of an apartment complex (Episcopal Housing Corporation) brought this action against the architect (Lafaye Associates, Inc.) and the builder (McCrory-Sumwalt Construction Co., Inc.) alleging defects in design and construction. The contract between the architect and the owner provided for arbitration...

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