· 4/27/2005
LaSonde v. CitiFinancial Mortg. Co., Inc.
Citations
- 614 S.E.2d 224
- 273 Ga. App. 113
How courts have described this case
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- concluding that a non-signatory plaintiff was equitably estopped from avoiding arbitration of a claim she brought with her co-plaintiff husband based on a promissory note signed by the husband and containing an arbitration clause
- plaintiff who did not sign promissory note containing arbitration provision was equitably estopped from avoiding arbitration of her claims for breach of that promissory note
- \[A] party cannot have it both ways; it cannot rely on the contract when it works to its advantage and then repute it when it works to its disadvantage.\
- plaintiff who was a nonsignatory to promissory note containing an arbitration clause was estopped from avoiding arbitration where claims of both plaintiffs, including the signatory, were intertwined and dependent upon the note
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Judges: Ruffin, Johnson, Barnes
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