HAWKINS v. JAMES D. ECKERT, P.A.

No. 98-04366.

738 So.2d 1002 (1999)

Peggy J. HAWKINS, Appellant, v. JAMES D. ECKERT, P.A. and R.W. Greene, III, P.A., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

July 30, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Townsend and Anita C. Brannon of Townsend & Brannon, Tampa, for Appellant.

Michael J. Keane and Brandon S. Vesely and Keane, Reese & Vesely, P.A., St. Petersburg, for Appellee.


FULMER, Judge.

Peggy J. Hawkins appeals from a nonfinal order granting a motion to compel arbitration. Because we hold that the appellees waived their right to compel arbitration when they filed suit in circuit court to enforce their rights under the parties' contract, we reverse the trial court's order.

The appellees are attorneys who represented Hawkins in a marital dissolution proceeding. After the dissolution proceeding was resolved, the appellees sued...

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