Misala, Inc. v. Eagles

PARIENTE, Judge.

Plaintiff, Misala, Inc., appeals from final judgment in favor of defendant, Richard Eagles, in its action for breach of a lease agreement. Because the trial court went beyond the four corners of the lease agreement in determining that an entity other than the signatories to the lease should be responsible for payments under the lease, we reverse and remand for a new trial.

It is a well-settled principle of contract law that where the terms of a contract are unambiguous, the parties’ intent must be determined from the “four corners” of the document. As this court stated in…