Peeler v. Rocky Mountain Log Homes Can., Inc.

Justice Dirk Sandefur delivered the Opinion of the Court.

***401¶1 Plaintiff James M. Peeler appeals the judgment of the Montana Nineteenth Judicial District Court, Lincoln County, granting Defendants' Rocky Mountain Log Homes Canada, Inc. (Rocky Mountain) and White River Contracting, LLC (White River) motion to compel arbitration and dismiss the case. We address the following restated issues:

1. Whether the District Court erroneously concluded that the arbitration agreement required arbitration of matters within its scope rather than merely authorizing it as a matter of discretion upon timely…