Case ID: root_1/html/0260-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Herd v. Bissel.
    Parol evidence not admissible to explain or contradict writings.
    Action on note. Issue to the jury, on a plea of payment in part, and a tender of a sum in full. On the note was indorsed, April, A. I). 1189, £15 13s. 4d.; and the defendant produced a receipt from the plaintiff, dated 23d of June, A. D. 1789, for the sum of £15 11s.; the plaintiff saiJ these were one and the same sum, and offered parol evidence to prove it.
   But

by the Court.

Parol evidence may not be admitted to contradict the writing, which must speak for itself; and the receipt and indorsement are so different dates, and for different sums. ' . '