Smith v. Cumberland Group, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when parties agree to arbitrate in a clear and unmistakable manner, the court will make every reasonable effort to favor such agreements
• holding that when parties agree to arbitrate in a clear and unmistakable manner, the court will make every reasonable effort to favor such agreements
• acknowledging that absent express contractual provision, contract which does not involve personal skill, trust, or confidence may be assigned without consent of other party
• stating: “As a matter of public policy, the courts of this Commonwealth strongly favor the settlement of disputes by arbitration”
• “An agreement to arbitrate a dispute is an agreement to submit oneself as well as one’s dispute to the arbitrators’ jurisdiction.”
• “Where an assignment is effective, the assignee stands in the shoes of the assignor[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).