Stapleton v. King
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Johnson District Court., The plaintiff alleges in his petition that the defendants entered into a written contract with plaintiff and Josiah Thompson, by which plaintiff and Thompson delivered to defendants 354 head of sheep, which defendants agreed to take good care of, to keep np the number of the flock, and to deliver to plaintiff and Thompson, annually, at shearing time, two pounds of well washed wool per head.
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Appeal from, Johnson District Court., The plaintiff alleges in his petition that the defendants entered into a written contract with plaintiff and Josiah Thompson, by which plaintiff and Thompson delivered to defendants 354 head of sheep, which defendants agreed to take good care of, to keep np the number of the flock, and to deliver to plaintiff and Thompson, annually, at shearing time, two pounds of well washed wool per head. That, for the years 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868 and 1869, the defendants failed to deliver wool, according to the terins of their agreement, on account whereof they are…
1Opinion of the Court
Day, Ch. J.
1. Evidence! parol testimony: receipt. The principal question involved in this case is, whether the exhibit attached to the defendant’s answer, and by counsel denominated a receipt, a writing, and a contract, may be explained by parol testimony, by showing what occurred at the time of its execution. The rule is well settled that parol contemporaneous evidence is not admissible for the purpose of explaining, varying or adding to, a valid written contract, but that a simple receipt may, by such testimony, be explained and even contradicted. The only difficulty in the case is to…
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