McInnis v. Watson

Citations

• 116 Wash. 680
• 200 P. 578
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 1001

Syllabus

<p>Fbauds, Statute of (44)—Operation of Statute—Modification of Lease. Under the rule that a contract required by law to be in writing cannot be modified by parol, excepting that an oral modification which has been performed may be set up as a defense, in an action on a farming lease requiring a portion of the crop to be paid as rental, the lessee cannot prove a verbal modification of the lease tending to reduce the rental, where there was no showing of anything done in performance of such alleged oral modification.</p>