MacLeod v. Chalet Susse International, Inc.

This is an action in assumpsit on a written consulting agreement between the plaintiff and the defendant corporation. In the superior court, the plaintiff alleged and proved to the satisfaction of the jury that the defendant corporation had breached its contractual obligation to pay plaintiff the yearly “salary” stipulated in the written agreement, even though plaintiff had failed to render any of the consultation requested of him by the defendant. The issue here presented is whether, considering the continued vitality of the parol evidence rule, the trial court erred in admitting certain…