KANSAS GAS & ELEC. v. WESTINGHOUSE ELEC. CORP.

No. 88-2012.

861 F.2d 420 (1988)

KANSAS GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION; Chevron, U.S.A., Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 22, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Norton Roethe (David W. Trotter, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., James C. Roberts, Bradfute W. Davenport, Jr., George A. Somerville, Mays & Valentine, Richmond, Va., on brief), for defendants-appellants.

Virginia W. Powell (Laura H. Hamilton, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Va., Warren B. Wood, Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corp., Burlington, Kan., on brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before RUSSELL, PHILLIPS, and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.


JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

Appellants appeal the district court's denial of their motion to compel arbitration. Because we conclude that their contract dispute with appellees is not arbitrable, we affirm.

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In February 1980 appellees Kansas Gas and Electric Company and Kansas City Power and Light Company entered into a settlement agreement with the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. As part of the agreement, appellees undertook to purchase...

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