Legal Opinion
Myers v. Derr
Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands
Decided September 26, 2008No. S. Ct. Civ. No. 2007-049PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
(September 26, 2008)
2Per curiam
Appellant James Myers (hereafter “Myers”) appeals a Superior Court judgment awarding him nominal damages in the amount of $1.00 for a trespass claim successfully prosecuted against James and Lori Derr (collectively “the Derrs” or “Appellees”). Myers asks this Court to find that the trial court erred when it (1) failed to award damages for injury to his land and (2) declined to award any other general damages on the basis that Myers’s complaint only requested compensation for injury to his land. For the reasons which follow, we shall affirm in part and…
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