Williams v. Spitzer Autoworld Canton, L.L.C.

{¶ 1} This case presents the question of whether the purchaser of an automobile may use parol evidence to contradict the terms of a final written purchase agreement in a Consumer Sales Practices Act action against an automobile dealer who allegedly failed to integrate an oral representation into the final written purchase agreement. Absent fraud, mistake, or other invalidating cause, a final written agreement may not be contradicted by evidence of a prior or contemporaneous oral agreement, and therefore a consumer may not use parol evidence to contradict the final written agreement to prove a…