Phillip v. Marsh-Monsanto

OPINION OF THE COURT

(May 30, 2017)

CABRET, Associate Justice.

Nashville Phillip appeals the Superior Court’s May 8, 2015 judgment awarding Wilma Marsh-Monsanto $16,320.84 under a November 21, 2011 contract of sale for real property in St. Thomas. Because the Superior Court erred in interpreting and applying Marsh-Monsanto’s pleadings in this case, and erred in awarding her damages under an alleged separate “gentleman’s agreement” to pay more money for the property, which — as a matter of law — was unenforceable in light of the merger language of the operative sales contract, we vacate the…