Passehl Estate v. Passehl

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a written contract may be modified by a subsequent oral contract
• noting that while a court’s rulings on evidentiary objections is an important test of whether an action was tried in law or equity, it is not dispositive
• noting that while a court’s rulings on evidentiary objections is an important test of whether an action was tried in law or equity, it is not dispositive
• concluding minor evidentiary objections and rulings by the district court that did not have a significant effect on the proceeding did not change the proceeding from equity to at law
• noting when “no one claims the trial court improperly excluded evidence, the trial court’s ruling on objections does not prevent a de novo review.”
• keeping these rules in mind when considering the language of an agreement

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