Rosenbaum v. Texas Energies, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The rule that parol evidence is inadmissible to contradict or vary a written contract presupposes an action involving a valid existing obligation.”
• parol evidence may be “introduced in an action to show the nonexistence of a binding contract” but not “to contradict or vary a [provision in] a valid existing obligation”
• “It has been held that a mistake of law does not excuse a party to a contract, unless it be a mutual mistake of both parties thereto . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).