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37 Mich. 161

Richards v. Fuller

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided June 20, 1877

Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1877-06-20

Assumpsit on a promissory note made by Richards to Warren S. Hale May 6th, 1874, and transferred to defendants in error by endorsement. It was given for part of the purchase price of a lot of logs which Hale himself held under contract from Isaac Stauffer, dated Jan. 5th, 1874, and covering all the cherry, walnut, basswood, white ash and maple timber on all or any of the lands owned by Stauffer in Caledonia township, to be delivered at Caledonia station in lumber.

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Decided 1877-06-20

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Marston, J.

¶1Whether all the logs contracted for in this case were by the parties understood to be only the logs sold by Stauffer to Hale in the writing of January 5th, 1874, would seem to be immaterial. The written assignment made by Hale to Richards is not such a written contract between the parties as would preclude plaintiff in error from showing by parol the agreement actually entered into. This assignment was not complete in itself and did not purport to set up the entire agreement. It may have been made pursuant to the agreement entered into and in part performance thereof, and this was what defendant below offered to show. We are of opinion that this evidence was admissible and should have been received for the purpose for which it was offered. The case comes clearly within previous rulings of this court. See Phelps v. Whitaker, ante, p. 72, and cases there cited, and Trevidick v. Mumford, 31 Mich., 470; Sirrine v. Briggs, 31 Mich., 443; Rowe v. Wright, 12 Mich., 291; Bowker v. Johnson, 17 Mich., 42; Facey v. Otis, 11 Mich., 217.

¶2Judgment reversed, with costs, and new trial ordered.

The other Justices concurred.
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