ALLIED-BRUCE TERMINIX COMPANIES, INC. v. BUTLER

1000758 and 1000809.

816 So.2d 9 (2001)

ALLIED-BRUCE TERMINIX COMPANIES, INC., d/b/a Terminix Service; and Billy Murphy v. Richard BUTLER and Hiltrud Butler. Robert E. Ritz and Wendy Jean Ritz v. Richard Butler and Hiltrud Butler.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

October 5, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Julian Motes and Michael E. Gabel of Sirote & Permutt, P.C., Mobile; and Edward M. Price, Jr., and Joel W. Weatherford of Farmer, Price, Hornsby & Weatherford, Dothan, for appellants Allied-Bruce Terminix Companies, Inc., d/b/a Terminix Service, and Billy Murphy.

William L. Lee III and William W. Nichols of Lee & McInish Attorneys, P.C., Dothan, for appellants Robert E. Ritz and Wendy Jean Ritz.

Stephen T. Etheredge of Buntin, Etheredge & Dowling, L.L.C., Dothan, for appellees Richard Butler and Hiltrud Butler.


HOUSTON, Justice.

This is an appeal from orders of the Circuit Court of Houston County, denying motions to compel arbitration.

The plaintiffs Richard and Hiltrud Butler signed a real-estate purchase agreement in which they agreed to purchase a house from the defendants Robert Ritz and Wendy Ritz. The agreement contained the following provision:

"Purchasers and sellers expressly agree that any dispute relating to this agreement[,] to any breach thereof...

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