Zorn v. Robertson

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• concluding that it was improper for plaintiff to introduce parol evidence that consideration for having deeded the decedent certain property was the decedent’s contemporaneous oral promise to reconvey the property to the plaintiff in her will
• “[W]here the consideration is expressed only by way of recital, it is permissible to show by parol testimony that the true consideration is in fact different from that expressed in the deed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).