Silver v. Security Jewelry & Loan Co.

Defendants appeal from a judgment awarding plaintiff $11,270 balance due on a contract of sale.

Question Presented

Was the contract ambiguous, thereby permitting the admission of parol evidence to explain it?

Evidence

The controversy is over the question of whether or not one of two separate inventories of pledged goods was included in the contract price of $15,000. On August 9, 1954, plaintiff and defendants Neil Blumenthal and Carole R. Shostak* signed a contract under which plaintiff agreed to sell and said defendants agreed to buy plaintiff’s jewelry, loan and pawnbroker business “together…