Legal Opinion
Riverisland Cold Storage, Inc. v. Fresno-Madera Production Credit Ass'n
California Supreme Court
Decided January 14, 2013No. S190581PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
CORRIGAN, J.
The parol evidence rule protects the integrity of written contracts by making their terms the exclusive evidence of the parties’ agreement. However, an established exception to the rule allows a party to present extrinsic evidence to show that the agreement was tainted by fraud. Here, we consider the scope of the fraud exception to the parol evidence rule.
As we discuss below, the fraud exception is a long-standing one, and is usually stated in broad terms. However, in 1935 this court adopted a limitation on the fraud exception: evidence offered to prove fraud “must tend to…
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