Northcom, Ltd. v. James

Northcom, Ltd., Jerry Oakley, and William R. McDonald III, the defendants in an action pending in the Coffee Circuit Court, appeal from an order issued on July 17, 2001. That order held that the defendants had failed to initiate arbitration, removed the case from the trial court's administrative docket, and ordered the defendants to answer the complaint against them filed by R.E. James, Roberta Gwenn James, and Kathy James Pittman (hereinafter collectively referred to as "the plaintiffs"). Oakley and McDonald are shareholders in Northcom, Ltd., and we will refer to all three defendants…