McGregor v. . Brown

Upon the trial of this action the plaintiff's counsel objected to the admission of evidence of a parol license to commit the acts of waste complained of. This objection was sustained, but at the same time the court ruled that it was competent for the defendant to give in evidence a parol agreement, mutually beneficial to the parties, by which wood was to be cut and the land seeded; or in other words, for it seems to me that such is its meaning, that the defendant might prove a contract of sale of the wood to him, founded on the consideration that he would seed down the land that he cleared.…