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48 Mich. 334

Baker v. Morehouse

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided April 25, 1882

Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1882-04-25

<p>Contract — Pa/rol evidence.</p> <p>In an action on a written contract parol evidence of stipulations not in it is inadmissible.</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently September 1909

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Decided 1882-04-25

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Campbell, J.

¶1Plaintiffs sued defendant for not carrying-out an agreement to furnish them with shingles.

¶2The agreement made by Morehouse was to sell to said Baker & Murray all the shingles made by him at his shingle mill out of his own timber, and his one-half made from Seaman’s timber, in the township of Colfax, during the year 1880.” The contract contained some provisions as to size, quality, and handling, and payment of price, which do not become material.

¶3As the case was given to the jury they must have found that all the shingles made by Morehouse out of his own timber, and out of his half of Seaman’s timber, in Colfax, were delivered.

¶4The court below refused to allow parol evidence that it was agreed the mill should be kept running continuously and that shingles should be made from timber in other towns also. The whole ground of complaint seems to have been the failure to do this.

¶5The contract contains no such agreement, and the parties were governed by their written agreement.

¶6There was no error in the rulings, and. the judgment must be affirmed with costs.

Cooley and Marston, JJ. concurred.
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