HOLMES v. COVERALL NORTH AMERICA, INC.

No. 10, September Term, 1994.

336 Md. 534 (1994)

RONALD T. HOLMES ET AL. v. COVERALL NORTH AMERICA, INC. ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

November 4, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eliot G. Striar, Columbia, for petitioner.

C. Torrence Armstrong (Frederick P. Helm, McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, Alexandria, VA, Morton A. Sacks, McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, Baltimore, all on brief), for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.


CHASANOW, Judge.

In this appeal, we are called upon to determine whether a claim for breach of contract damages based on fraudulent inducement and violations of the Maryland Franchise Registration and Disclosure Act may be resolved in court rather than submitted to an arbitrator, as required by an arbitration clause contained in the franchise contract.

I.

The underlying dispute in this case involves the validity of an arbitration clause in a franchise...

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