Supreme Court of Alabama May 14, 1908 (Tennessee Coal, Iron & Ry. Co. v. Roussell)

McCLELLAN, J.

The employment of the expression, “Whereas, the said parties are desrions of settling said controversy by arbitration in accordance with the statutes of Alabama,” clearly evinces the common intent, in a material respect, to have been to make the statutory provision for a statutory (as distinguished from common-law) arbitration an integral part of their alleged agreement to arbitrate