Martin & Martin, Inc. v. Bradley Enterprises, Inc.

The primary issue that we consider in this appeal is whether the trial court erred in refusing to permit the plaintiff to use parol evidence to explain a purported ambiguity in a contract.

Plaintiff, Martin & Martin, Inc., filed an amended motion for judgment against Bradley Enterprises, Inc., and its president, Robert J. Bradley, Jr. The plaintiff, a Virginia corporation, alleged in its amended motion that the defendants breached a contract, described as an asset purchase agreement, and that the defendants fraudulently induced the plaintiff to execute that agreement.

The following facts are…