Case ID: so2d_801/html/0837-01.html
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Author: {"author": "STUART, Justice. JOHNSTONE, Justice", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte Megan SMITH and Brittany Smith, By and Through their parents and next friends, James Smith and Tammy Smith; and James Smith and Tammy Smith, individually. (Re Tammy Smith and James Smith, individually and as mother, father and next friends of Brittany Smith and Megan Smith, their minor daughters v. The Sanderson Group, Inc., et al.)
    1992231.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    May 4, 2001.
    Michael A. Wing, Mobile, for petitioners.
    Jessica M. McDill of Chason & Chason, P.C., Bay Minette, for respondent The Sanderson Group, Inc.
    Joel A. Williams of Sadler Sullivan, P.C., Birmingham, for respondent Waverlee Homes, Inc.
   STUART, Justice.

WRIT DENIED.

HOUSTON, SEE, LYONS, BROWN, HARWOOD, and WOODALL, JJ., concur.

JOHNSTONE, J., concurs in part and dissents in part.

JOHNSTONE, Justice

(concurring in part and dissenting in part).

I concur to deny the writ to revise the orders compelling arbitration of the claims against Sanderson and Conseco. I respectfully dissent from the denial of the writ to revise the order compelling arbitration of the claims against Waverlee, which is neither a signatory nor, I submit, a third party beneficiary.