Legal Opinion
Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corporation v. Dan M. Wertz
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided August 24, 1960No. 8027_1PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.
A problem of the application of the parol evidence rule is presented here in a not unfamiliar form. The judgment appealed from is based upon testimony of an oral agreement which was permitted over objection to be introduced at the trial in contradiction of explicit provisions of the subsequent written contract of the parties. This, we conclude, was error for which the judgment must be reversed.
The action was brought in the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia by Rock-Ola, a Delaware corporation engaged in the manufacture of juke boxes, to recover from its…
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- Shockey v. WestcottSupreme Court of Virginia · 1949
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3Cited by21 opinions
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