Elizabeth City Hotel Corp. v. Overman

On his appeal to this Court, the defendant relies chiefly on his exceptions to the exclusion of evidence tending to show that oral representations were made to him as inducements for his execution of the stock subscription agreement, which is in writing, and to the instruction of the court to the jury that if they believed all the evidence and found the facts to be as the evidence tended to show, they should answer the issue, “$1,000, and interest”; and that, otherwise, they should answer the issue, “Nothing.” Neither of the assignments of error based on these exceptions can be sustained. It…