SouthTrust Bank v. Ford

How courts have described this case

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• holding estate administrator asserting claim on behalf of estate “stands in the [decedent’s] shoes” and is bound to arbitrate claim as the signator decedent would have been had he asserted claim himself
• holding estate administrator asserting claim on behalf of estate “stands in the [decedent’s] shoes” and is bound to arbitrate claim as the signator decedent would have been had he asserted claim himself
• “[T]he doctrine of estoppel is applicable only to estop a signatory from avoiding arbitration.”
• \The doctrine of intertwining is applicable where arbitrable and nonarbitrable claims are so closely related that the party to a controversy subject to arbitration is equitably estopped from denying the arbitrability of the related claim.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).