Pantzer v. Shields Development Co.

ROTH, District Judge.

This is a suit for breach of contract in which the plaintiff, Edward S. Pantzer, alleges that the defendant, Shields Development Company, backed out of an agreement to sell Shields Suburban Shoppes to Pantzer and instead sold the shopping center to a third party, Edward DeSeta. The contract that Pantzer alleges existed was not a formal sales agreement, but rather consisted of a number of letters and memoranda exchanged between October, 1984 and April, 1985. The plaintiff’s position is that this correspondence contains all the elements necessary to satisfy the Statute of…