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4 Ga. App. 351

Fleming v. Satterfield

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided May 18, 1908

Court of Appeals of Georgia · decided 1908-05-18

Complaint, from city court of Hartwell — Judge Hodges. December 30, 1907. The action was on a promissory note for $135 principal, dated January 2, 1907, and due 30 days after date, which recited that it was given for the purchase-money of “one blue horse-mule, 4 years old.” The defendant filed a plea as follows: On January 2, 1907, he traded to -the plaintiff a mule, worth $100, for the mule for which the note sued upon was given.

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Decided 1908-05-18

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Hill, C. J.

¶11. “Tlie rule is well settled that where the parties have reduced to writing what appears to be a complete and certain agreement, importing a legal obligation, it will, in the absence of fraud, accident, or mistake, be conclusively presumed that the writing contains the whole of the agreement between the parties; and parol evidence of prior, contemporaneous, or subsequent conversations, representations, or statements will not be received for the purpose of adding to or varying the written instrument.” 2 Mechem on Sales, § 1254; Civil Code, § 5201.

¶22. Where a promissory note is given for the purchase-money of a mule, which is unambiguous and unconditional, and contains no warranty of the soundness of the mule, no express warranty can be added to the note by parol; and a plea which set up an express warranty, alleged to have been made by parol contemporaneously with the execution of such a note, was properly stricken on demurrer. Bullard v. Brewer, 118 Ga. 918 (45 S. E. 711) ; Seitz v. Brewers’ Refrigerator Co., 141 U. S. 510 (12 Sup. Ct. 46, 35 L. ed. 837) ; 2 Mechem on Sales, § 1254.

Powell, J.,

¶3dissents, because he does not think this a case in which the principle of tlje first headnote is applicable.

¶4Judgment affirmed.

James H. Shelton, for plaintiff in error,

¶5cited: Civil Code, §§3675, 5091; Aultman v. Mason, 83 Ga. 218; 2 Suth. Dam, 134. Bullard v. Brewer, 118 Ga. 918, distinguished.

A. A. M'cGurry, A. S. Shelton, contra,

¶6cited, besides the authorities cited in the decision, Benj. Sales (17th ed., 1899), 666; 17 Cyc. 593-4, 611, 716-17.

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