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

OPINION

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.2012). We affirm.

Appellees are cotton farmers who each entered into a contract with Venture for the sale and marketing of cotton produced from their land. The contract that each farmer entered into contained an agreement to arbitrate that provided in part:

All disputes…