Fleming v. Satterfield

Georgia Court of Appeals
Fleming v. Satterfield, 4 Ga. App. 351 (1908)
61 S.E. 518; 1908 Ga. App. LEXIS 296
Hill, Powell

Fleming v. Satterfield

Opinion of the Court

Hill, C. J.

1. “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.

2. 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.

Dissenting Opinion

Powell, J.,

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

Judgment affirmed.

James H. Shelton, for plaintiff in error,

cited: 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,

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

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