Case Name: KLONOWSKI v. MONCZEWSKI
Court: Ohio Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1923-01-27
Citations: 1 Ohio Law Abs. 234
Docket Number: No. 4157
Parties: KLONOWSKI v. MONCZEWSKI
Judges: 
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 1
Pages: 234–234

Head Matter:
No. 191
KLONOWSKI v. MONCZEWSKI
Ohio Court of Appeals, Cuyahoga County
No. 4157,
Jan. 27, 1923
This opinion has not been published except in Abstract.
ORAL CONTRACT — (1) In absence of agreement agent’s liability depends upon diligence — (2) Unintelligible matter in charge to jury not necessarily error — (3) Parol evidence may not vary a written agreement.
Error to Municipal Court of Cleveland
Attorneys — Stearns, Chamberlain & Royan,' for Klonowski; V. J. Conrad, for Monczewski.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Epitomized Opinion
Monczewski paid $827 to Klonowski, who conducted a private bank, and was given a receipt stating that said money was to be remitted to a certain bank in Warsaw, Poland. Monczewski claimed a verbal agreement with Klonowski whereby Klonowski should deposit said money, after changing it into 42,000 Polish marks, within ten weeks or return the money. Klonowski denied that a time limit was set or that there was an agreement to return the money. Klonowski did not deposit said money until one year after receiving it. Judgment for Monczewski in Municipal Court. Held by Court of Appeals in affirming the decision:
1. In the absence of an express agreement the liability of Klonowski as agent depended upon hi? diligence. No facts explaining the delay were pleaded nor proved.
2. Though some of the charge to the jury was unintelligible, and unnecessary, such error was not prejudicial if the real issue was properly submitted.
3. The rule that parol evidence may not be introduced to vary a written agreement was not violated.