Yates v. Doctor's Associates, Inc.

This is an interlocutory appeal pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 307(a)(1) (107 Ill. 2d R. 307(a)(1)) from an order of the circuit court of Madison County which denied defendants’ motions to compel arbitration and to stay all judicial proceedings pending the conclusion of that arbitration. For the reasons which follow, we affirm.

The record before us shows that defendant Doctor’s Associates, Inc., is a Connecticut corporation which sells franchises for the operation of “Subway” sandwich stores. In 1987, plaintiffs Richard T. Yates and Dick Dewayne Cox, Jr., purchased eight of these franchises.…