Edward D. Jones & Co. v. Schwartz

ELLIS, Judge.

Edward D. Jones & Co., a Missouri Limited Partnership, appeals from the trial court’s grant of summary judgment denying its application to vacate an arbitration award in favor of Channing Schwartz and against Jones & Co., and confirming the award.

The record reveals that Channing Schwartz worked as a stock broker for Jones & Co. in Alliance, Nebraska. He first began working in that capacity in September, 1983. Alliance is a rural area in the Nebraska panhandle with a population of about 10,000. Jones & Co. and Schwartz did not have a written contract. However, they reached a…