Holiday Homes of St. John, Inc. v. Lockhart

I agree with the majority that the contract between the owners and Holiday Homes of St. John, Inc. (Holiday) does not entitle Holiday to a sales commission in the event that the owners procured the buyer. I reach that result, however, through a somewhat different line of reasoning predicated upon the strong dependency of the Virgin Islands legal system on the rules expressed in the Restatements of the American Law Institute.

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The Virgin Islands Code establishes a hierarchy of sources of law for the Islands:

The rules of the common law, as expressed in the restatements of the law approved by the…