Kingsbury v. Burnside’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district · 56 state decisions

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1. ““Prom the best investigation we have been able to give to the question, and the authorities which bear upon it, we have arrived at the conclusion, that inasmuch as the written evidence clearly establishes the existence of a trust, parol evidence of the words referred to in the letter is admissible for the purpose of describing or defining what was meant by the letter, and as showing the truth of the transaction. “To search for artificial rules by which to exclude such evidence, beyond the just demands of the statute of frauds, would be an attempted reversal of some of the most favorite maxims of courts of equity; would be the exercise of astuteness in the ways of defeating the plain intention of the parties, and aiding in the consummation of a fraud * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hearty v. Renner Products Co.