Brown v. Centex Homes

TYSON, Judge.

Centex Homes (“Centex”) and Mary Kathryn Kroening (“Kroening”) (collectively, “defendants”) appeal order entered 11 May 2004 granting Centex’s motion to stay and compel arbitration and denying Kroening’s motion to stay and compel arbitration. We reverse and remand.

I. Background

On 21 January 2002, James S. Brown, Jr., and Jacky A. Rosati (“plaintiffs”) met with Kroening at a sales office owned by Centex located in the Becket’s Ridge Subdivision in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Plaintiffs looked at a home located adjacent to a wooded piece of property. Plaintiffs asked Kroening…