Zabinski v. Bright Acres Associates

TOAL, Chief Justice:

In this partnership dispute, three partners appeal from an Order denying arbitration.

Factual/Procedural Background

Bright Acres Associates (“Bright Acres”) was a partnership consisting of the following four equal partners: John Leutwil er (“Leutwiler”), Henry Massey (“Massey”), John Brainard (“Brainard”), and Leo Zabinski (“Zabinski”). The partnership was created in 1980 in order to buy, renovate, and sell thirty apartments and approximately twenty-six acres of land on Hilton Head Island. J. Ray Westmoreland (‘Westmoreland”), attorney for Leutwiler’s estate (“Respondent”),…