Hamilton Metals, Inc. v. Blue Valley Metal Products Co.

CLARK, Judge.

Hamilton Metals, Inc., appeals judgments rendered in two related cases involving respondent Blue Valley Metal Products Company, a partnership. The issues presented are whether a partnership agreement arbitration clause should be enforced, as the trial court ordered, and whether a second cause should have been dismissed because duplicative of the issues in the first case. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

The following facts are not disputed. Hamilton is one of several partners in Blue Valley Metal Products, a Missouri partnership. Included in the partnership agreement was the…