Goddard v. Goucher

The plaintiff, Scott Goddard, appeals from a judgment entered against him following a jury-waived trial in the Superior Court on his complaint seeking enforcement of a 2007 purchase and sale agreement. The two issues on appeal are (1) whether the trial judge erred in concluding that Goddard and the defendant Richard Goucher failed to enter into a valid and en forceable purchase and sale agreement despite a pretrial stipulation regarding the contractual negotiations and their legal consequences; and (2) whether the trial judge erred in declining to admit secondary evidence of the purchase and…