Carolina Metal Products Corporation v. Robert Larson and Flame Foil, Inc.

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment n. o. v. for the defendant Robert Larson, entered after a jury verdict for the plaintiff Carolina Metal Products Corporation against Larson and Flame Foil, Inc. The single issue is whether the trial court correctly ruled that a written contract between Carolina and Flame Foil was such an integration of the negotiations and agreements between the parties as to exclude parol evidence of an alleged prior oral contract between Carolina and Larson.

In late August 1963 Larson began discussions with Carolina for manufacture of 150,000 heaters,…