Bluffs, Inc. v. Wysocki

HILL, Judge.

The threshold issue is whether there is a right of appeal from an order compelling arbitration. For the following reasons, we hold there is not.

G.S. l-567.3(a) provides that upon application of a party showing a written arbitration agreement, and the opposing party’s refusal to arbitrate, the trial court shall order the parties to proceed with arbitration. If the opposing party denies the existence of an agreement to arbitrate, the court must summarily decide the issue of the existence of an agreement to arbitrate, and it must order arbitration if it finds the existence of an…