Volume 220 — Nebraska Reports

1. Contracts. Generally, in the absence of anything to indicate a contrary intention, instruments executed at the same time, by the same parties, for the same purpose, and in the course of the same transaction, are legally one instrument and will be construed together as if they were as much one in form as they are in substance. 2. Contracts: Parol Evidence. Generally, parol evidence is admissible for the purpose of explaining and showing the true nature of the transaction between the parties. 3. Contracts: Assignments. Generally, the right to receive money due or to become due under an existing contract may be assigned even though the contract itself is not assignable. 4. ___: ___. A contract to pay money may be assigned by the person to whom the money is payable, unless there is something in the terms of the contract manifesting the intention of the parties that it shall not be assigned. 5. Prejudgment Interest. Prejudgment interest is allowable where the amount of the claim is liquidated. A claim is liquidated where no reasonable controversy exists as to the plaintiff's right to recover or as to the amount of such recovery. If either of the requirements of the rule is not met, the claim is unliquidated and prejudgment interest is not allowed.<page_number>Page 574</page_number>