Daniels Insurance Agency, Inc. v. Jordan

OPINION

PAYNE, Chief Justice.

Daniels Insurance Agency, Inc., appeals from a judgment dismissing the company’s motion to vacate an arbitration award in favor of Daniels’ former employee, Larry R. Jordan, and confirming the award of the arbitrator. The issues on appeal are whether the trial court erred in finding that the Uniform Arbitration Act, §§ 44-7-1 through 44-7-22, N.M.S.A.1978, was not applicable to the proceeding and that the court had no jurisdiction over the subject matter of the action under the rules of the American Arbitration Association. We reverse.

Daniels sought to restrain…