RUSS BERRIE AND CO., INC. v. GANTT

No. 08-98-00387-CV.

998 S.W.2d 713 (1999)

RUSS BERRIE AND COMPANY, INC., Appellant, v. Michael GANTT, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, El Paso.

August 5, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellen M. House, Cotton Bledsoe, Tighe & Dawson, P.C., Midland, for Appellant.

Denis Dennis, MacMahon, Tidwell, Hansen, Atkins & Peacock, P.C., Odessa, for Appellee.

Before Panel No. 1 LARSEN, McCLURE, and CHEW, JJ.


OPINION

SUSAN LARSEN, Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a motion to compel arbitration and stay litigation. Finding no evidence in this record that the parties' contract had a substantial affect upon commerce, we initially determine that the Texas General Arbitration Act applies,1 rather than the Federal Arbitration Act,2 that this interlocutory appeal is appropriate...

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