Bradley v. Bentley
Supreme Court of Vermont
. This was an action on the following promissory note executed by the defendant to the plaintiff. “ $22 50. Sunderland, Dec. 23d, 1833. One year from date I promise to pay G. Bradley or bearer, twenty-two dollars and fifty cents for value received, with interest. (Signed,) SOLOMON BENTLEY.”
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. This was an action on the following promissory note executed by the defendant to the plaintiff. “ $22 50. Sunderland, Dec. 23d, 1833. One year from date I promise to pay G. Bradley or bearer, twenty-two dollars and fifty cents for value received, with interest. (Signed,) SOLOMON BENTLEY.” Plea, — Non assumpsit, with notice of the following facts : On the trial the defendant offered to prove by parol, the following facts, to wit, that said note was given for a stove sold and delivered by the plaintiff to the defendant on the day of the date of said note, and at the same time it was agreed…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Coleamer,
J.-^There is hardly to be found in the science of. law, a principle more uniform and inflexible in its application than the rule in the law of evidence that a written contract is the highest and most conclusive evidence of the minds of the parties on that subject, at that time;land therefore it cannot be contradicted, varied, controled or added to by parol evidence. Such evidence is never received but in case of fraud, (which is to show that in fact it never was a contract) or in case of latent ambiguity, (he instrument is complete in itself,…
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