Appellate Court of Illinois, 1914

Ripley v. Cross S. Farming Co.

Appellate Court of Illinois · Decided October 13, 1914 · Baker

189 Ill. App. 291; 1914 Ill. App. LEXIS 318

Opinion of the Court

Mr. Justice Baker

delivered the opinion of the court.

4. Evidence, § 345*—when parol evidence of prior verbal agreements inadmissible. Where a deed constitutes the contract for the purchase of land, parol evidence of an antecedent or contemporaneous verbal agreement by the grantors to improve the land by digging an irrigation well thereon is not admissible.

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