Choice Hotels International, Inc. v. Ocmulgee Fields, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reversing jury verdict when trial court erred in admitting parol evidence to show that parties mutually departed from the terms of a clearly written contract
• “Well-established Georgia law provides that matters outside a contract cannot be used to vary or explain the unambiguous terms of an agreement.”
• “Particularly when a contract contains a merger clause, parol evidence is inadmissible to challenge the unambiguous terms of the contract....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).