Trotter v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
October 1937
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Samson v. Beale · Gordon v. Hillman · Gudmundson v. Commercial Bank & Trust Co. · Johnson v. Williams · Christiansen v. Parker
Most-quoted passages
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““Appellants’ fifth assignment of error is a complaint concerning the action of the trial court in admitting certain oral evidence. Appellants contend this was error on the ground that it varied the terms of the written exchange agreement. This claim of error is not well founded. In an action brought for relief because of fraud, it is competent to show all of the circumstances surrounding the transaction — oral promises and agreements contradicting and varying the writing, as well as all other matters — not for the purpose of showing a different contract from that actually entered into, but for the purpose of showing the contract actually entered into to be fraudulent and void. Gordon v. Hillman, 91 Wash. 490 ( 158 P. 96 ).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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