Turner Construction Co. v. Midwest Curtainwalls, Inc.

In this construction dispute, plaintiff Turner Construction Company, the general contractor, filed a petition to stay arbitration proceedings after a demand for arbitration was filed by the subcontractor, defendant Midwest Curtainwalls, Inc., a/k/a Midwest Architectural Metals, Inc., and Ampat/Midwest Corporation. The trial court denied Turner’s petition to stay arbitration and granted Midwest’s motion to dismiss the petition pursuant to section 2 — 619 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 110, par. 2 — 619). Turner appeals from this interlocutory order (107 Ill. 2d R.…