Snider v. Production Chemical Manufacturing, Inc.

ORS 36.730 provides that an appeal “may be taken” from an interlocutory order denying a petition to compel arbitration. In this case, defendant did not take an appeal pursuant to that statute. Instead, defendant appealed from the general judgment and, as part of that appeal, assigned error to the trial court’s order denying its petition to compel arbitration. The Court of Appeals held that it did not have jurisdiction to consider defendant’s assignment of error. Snider v. Production Chemical Manufacturing, Inc., 221 Or App 593, 600, 191 P3d 691 (2008). We allowed defendant’s petition for…