Case ID: ind_8/html/0256-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Stuart, J. \n      Per Curiam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hiatt and Others v. Simpson.
    Oral contemporaneous agreements cannot be given in evidence to control the effect of a written instrument.
    The maker of a promissory note assuming on the face of the note to act in his individual capacity, will no'iife-permitted to show by parol that he acted in any other capacity. ;
    APPEAL from the Wayne Court of Common Pleas.
   Stuart, J.

Suit on a note made by the appellants to the appellee. On its face it is a plain note of hand, waiving appraisement, and signed by the makers personally. Answer, that in making the note the makers acted only as the agents of the Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Company — in brief, setting up a contemporaneous understanding, to control the express terms of the note. Demurrer to the answer sustained. And correctly too. Oral contemporaneotis agreements not be permitted to bo given in evidence to control the effect of a written instrument. Harvey v. Laflin, 2 Ind. R. 477.

J. Mariden, for the appellants.

O. P. Morion and L. Heodin, for the appellee.

The defendants in making the note, assumed to act in their individual capacity, and they cannot be permitted to contradict it by showing -that they acted in any other capacity.

Per Curiam.

The judgment is affirmed with 10 per cent, damages and costs.