Schlater Mercantile Co. v. Brinly-Hardy Co.
Schlater Mercantile Co. v. Brinly-Hardy Co.
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
This suit was instituted in the court below by appellee to recover of appellant the value of certain goods, wares,
It is sought to uphold this instruction on the ground that to give effect to the alleged agreement that this written order was not delivered as a present contract, but was to take effect only in event appellant afterwards decided to purchase the articles therein listed, would be to vary the terms of a written contract by parol, and therefore that it should be disregarded, and the contract ■ enforced as written. This contention has been ruled against appellee by the case of Ohio Pottery & Glass Co. v. Pickle, 66 So. 321, and consequently the judgment of the court below must be, and is, reversed, and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
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- Evidence. Parctl evidence to vary writing. Conditional delivery o/ contract. Where defendant signed an order for goods, which recited that ‘there is no further agreement or stipulation than what is here in writing” he could -nevertheless show by parol evidence, that the order was signed under the express agreement that it would be pocketed by the seller’s salesman until the buyer could ascertain whether he could purchase goods from a company with which he had been dealing, or whether he could obtain a better price from other dealers and that the order was not to take effect unless he afterwards decided to purchase the articles therein listed.