Venture Cotton Cooperative and Noble Americas Corp. v. Shelby Alan Freeman

OPINION ON REMAND

JIM R. WRIGHT, CHIEF JUSTICE

This is a consolidated interlocutory appeal of the trial court’s orders in which it ■denied Venture Cotton Cooperative’s and Noble Americas Corp.’s motions to compel arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). See 9 U.S.C. §§ 1-16; Tex. Civ. PRAc. & Rem.Code Ann. § 51.016 (West Supp. 2015). We reverse and remand.

Venture is a cotton cooperative-marketing association managed by Noble. • Appel-lees are a group of twenty-eight cotton farmers who each contracted to sell cotton to Venture. In the trial court, there were two separate suits. Two…