Bowman v. Tagg

Citations

• 5 Sadler 74
• 8 A. 384
• 19 Week. No. 147
• 1887 Pa. LEXIS 520

Syllabus

<p>Where parties without any fraud or mistake have deliberately put their engagements in writing, the law declares the writing to be not only the best but the only evidence of their agreement.</p> <p>Note. — The same principle was recognized in Jones v. Backus, 114 Pa. 120, 6 Atl. 335; Duffield v. Hue, 129 Pa. 94, 18 Atl. 566; Sanders v. Sharp, 153 Pa. 555, 25 At]. 524; Stull v. Thompson, 154 Pa. 43, 25 Atl. 890; Baugh v. White, lfil Pa. 632, 29 Atl. 267; Dixon-Woods Co. v. Phillips Glass Co. 169 Pa. 167, 32 Atl. 432.</p> <p>Parol testimony is not admissible to prove that, upon the delivery of a letter of attorney to collect rents and apply them to specified purposes, a verbal alteration, in the terms governing the application of the rents, was made by the attorney as a condition upon which he accepted the letter.</p>