MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH, INC. v. KIRTON

1970152.

719 So.2d 201 (1998)

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH, INC.; and Jerome T. Jordan v. Margaret KIRTON.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 5, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Inge Selden III, Carl S. Burkhalter, and T. Louis Coppedge of Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., Birmingham, for appellants.

Lange Clark, Birmingham; Archie C. Lamb, Jr., of Levin, Middlebrooks, Mabie, Thomas, Mitchell, Papantonio & Lamb, Birmingham, for appellee.


HOUSTON, Justice.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., and Jerome T. Jordan, a financial consultant for Merrill Lynch (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Merrill Lynch"), appeal from the trial court's order denying their motion to compel arbitration of Margaret Kirton's claims. We reverse and remand.

Paul Burgess Adamson, Sr. ("Paul Sr."), died in 1986, leaving a wife, Alice Eliot Adamson; a son, Paul Burgess Adamson, Jr. ("Paul Jr."); and...

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