Cook's Pest Control, Inc. v. Boykin

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that, generally, “a nonsignatory to an arbitration agreement, cannot be forced to arbitrate [his] claims”
• noting that, Georgia Power Co. v. Partin , 727 So.2d 2 , 8 (Ala. 1998), `Justice Shores, in her dissent, expressed the implicit holding of that case when she wrote that \`the plaintiffs could have avoided arbitration by not amending their complaint to state a contract claim.'\'
• \It is black-letter law that arbitration agreements must be enforced according to general standards of contract law.\
• third party's claims of negligence and wantonness were not subject to the arbitration provision
• third party’s claims of negligence and wantonness were not subject to the arbitration provision
• arbitration not compelled where movant attempted \to enforce the clause beyond its scope\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).