Bennett v. Cotton

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• wife precluded from asserting claims relating to construction of their residence already submitted to binding arbitration by her husband and co-owner of the property
• arbitration award in home construction contract dispute was res judicata as to one who took part in arbitration and was in privity with another party to contract
• “‘[T]he term privity denotéis] [a] mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property.’ ”
• arbitration clause expressly covering “all claims or disputes... arising out of or relating to the contract documents, or the breach thereof ” is broad enough to encompass claims of fraud and deceit
• “Under Georgia law, preclusion doctrines apply to arbitration proceedings. And preclusion doctrines apply to a cause of action even if some new factual allegations have been made, some new relief has been requested, or a new defendant has been added.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).