Greenwade v. Citizens Bank of Oregon

Defendant, an Oregon banking corporation, appeals from a judgment for plaintiffs in an action at law for breach of an alleged oral agreement accompanying a real estate construction loan transaction. Defendant assigns as error (1) the denial of defendant’s motion to strike evidence of the oral agreement under the parol evidence rule and (2) the denial of defendant’s motion for directed verdict, made on the grounds (a) that if the motion to strike were granted there was insufficient evidence of the contract claimed to be breached and (b) that defendant’s conduct was not the legal cause of…