Michels v. Olmstead

Citations

• 157 U.S. 198
• 15 S. Ct. 580
• 39 L. Ed. 671
• 1895 U.S. LEXIS 2192

Syllabus

<p>If, in an action at law upon a written contract, oral evidence offered by the defendant that the writing signed by the parties was not intended as a contract, nor understood by either party to be binding as such, is ex-eluded by the court, upon the plaintiffs objection, as incompetent to control the written contract, he is estopped, at the hearing of a bill in equity thereupon filed by the defendant for an injunction against the prosecution of the action at law, to object that the evidence was admissible at law only.</p>