Case Name: SHYMER against WESTBROOK
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1812-09
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 976
Docket Number: 
Parties: [710] [*] SHYMER against WESTBROOK.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 530–530

Head Matter:
[710] [*] SHYMER against WESTBROOK.
OH CERTIORARI.
The action below was brought on a promise to pay the debt of the third person, which was distinctly set out in the state of demand; and on the trial before the justice, the. plaintiff offered to prove the promise, by parol testimony, which was objected to by the defendant; but the justice admitted the testimony, and the plaintiff recovered. All this appeared by the record.
Anderson, attorney for plaintiff.

Opinion:
By the Court.
This is a plain case. The justice erred in admitting the parol proof of the promise. It is not even pretended that there was any written promise.
Judgment reversed.