Thisler v. Mackey

Citations

• 65 Kan. 464
• 70 P. 334

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Promissory Note — Contemporaneous Agreement — Oral Evidence. The express engagement to pay contained in a promissory note of the usual form constitutes such instrument a complete contract, importing on its face an absolute obligation as to which a reservation of right not to pay is contradictory. . Therefore, oral evidence of a contemporaneous agreement to surrender the note without payment, in rescission of the contract pursuant to which it was given, is inadmissible.</p>