Opinion ID: 1686104
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Heading: Jurisdiction to Appeal Orders Denying or Staying Arbitration

Text: Lafarge appeals the trial court's judgment denying its motion to compel arbitration and granting Dunn and DIG's joint motion to stay arbitration. It also appeals the trial court's overruling of its motion to stay litigation. The right to appeal is purely statutory, and where a statute does not give a right to appeal, no right exists. Farinella v. Croft, 922 S.W.2d 755, 756 (Mo. banc 1996). Section 435.400.1, a part of the Missouri Uniform Arbitration Act, expressly grants the right to appeal orders denying an application to compel arbitration or granting an order to stay arbitration.