Gilleland v. Welch

Jekkins, Presiding Justice.

1. “While evidence is inadmissible to add to, take from, or vary a written contract, all the attendant circumstances may be proved; and if there is an ambiguity, latent or patent, it may be explained.” Tolbert v. Short, 150 Ga. 413 (2) (104 S. E. 245). This does not mean, however, that a written contract, complete on its face and unambiguous, can be altered by parol, except by showing fraud, accident, or mistake by which the complaining party was induced to sign the agreement, or by which the contract failed to speak the true understanding. Slaten v. College Park…