Amherst Investment Co. v. Meacham

Citations

• 69 Wash. 284
• 124 P. 682
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 893

Syllabus

<p>Evidence—Parol to Vary Writing. Where a contract employing an agent to take charge of specified property was plain and explicit in defining the agent’s duties, parol evidence that he in addition at the time agreed to pay certain rents for the employer is inadmissible as varying the terms of the writing.</p> <p>Contracts —Construction — Contemporaneous Memorandum. Where a contract is complete in itself, a memorandum of the subject-matter prepared by one party for his own convenience is inadmissible to aid in its construction, when the contract did not refer to the memorandum and the two were obviously independent of each other.</p> <p>Contracts—Acceptance—Signing. Where a signed offer of employment is accepted, the contract is complete although not signed by the other party.</p> <p>Contracts—Construction by Parties—Evidence—Admissibility. The acts of the parties, as tending to show their interpretation of a contract, are not admissible where the contract was dated January 5, and the alleged breach occurred February 8, following, the contract was not ambiguous, and no practical interpretation put upon it by one party had been acquiesced in by the other.</p>