Allen v. Tacoma Mill Co.

Citations

• 18 Wash. 216
• 51 P. 372
• 1897 Wash. LEXIS 140

Syllabus

<p>PAROL EVIDENCE—RECEIPTS — PURCHASE OF LOGS—RIGHT TO UNSCALED LOGS—CONSTRUCTION OF CONTRACT.</p> <p>A receipt for money does not fall within the rule that written contracts cannot be varied or contradicted by parol, and its terms are always open to explanations, and even contradiction.</p> <p>The purchaser of a raft of logs upon a scale of logs accepted and paid for, is not entitled to retain other logs in the raft, known as culls, which were not scaled nor paid for, in the absence of an agreement that the price paid for the raft was to include culls as well as merchantable logs.</p>