Farmers Co-Operative Fertilizer Co. v. Eason

The appellant takes the position that the contract purporting to extend the maturity of the note, even if sufficiently definite in point of time, was improperly admitted in evidence because it varied the terms of a written agreement. In this opinion we do not concur. If a contract is not within the statute of frauds the parties may elect to put their agreement in writing, or to contract orally, or to reduce some of the terms to writing and leave the others in parol. If a part be written and a part verbal, that which is written cannot ordinarily be aided or contradicted by parol evidence, but…