Court Opinion

ID: 9831229
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 20:56:25.405525+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:32.841736
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Oh Motion for Rehearing.
In deference to appellee’s motion for rehearing, we have again examined the record and the briefs of counsel in this case, and adhere to our original conclusions. It is not deemed necessary to review the evidence, the salient features of which are outlined in our original opinion.
As we construed the pertinent evidence in this case, an application of the parol evidence rule was called for, and the failure of the trial court to apply the rule required a reversal of the case. The written contract, the execution of which is assumed for the purposb of this decision, superseded all prior and contemporaneous parol agreements of the parties, and our interpretation of the facts of the case led us to the conclusion that the attempt on the part of the appellee to interpolate a parol understanding as to the agreed value of the machine to be delivered by Pope to the Company into an unequivocal, unambiguous written contract dealing with the selfsame matter, must fail. ■
All of the cases dealt with and relied upon by appellee are decided upon the theory that the written contracts in litigation were but partial integrations of their subject matter, and that hence parol evidence was admissible to bridge the hiatus. From the evidence, no such case is presented here, for the contract in this case purports to be and is a complete memorial of the transaction out of which this litigation arose. The integration is complete, as contradistinguished from partial. McCormick and Ray, Texas Law of Evidence, § 725, p. 947, et seq., § 728, p. 954; 10 R.C.L. p. 1033; Jones on Evidence, 2d Edition, Vol. 4, p. 2853, et seq., § 1561; 17 Tex.Jur. 854; Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Strauss, Tex.Civ.App., 243 S.W. 528; Holt v. Chandler, Tex.Civ.App., 29 S.W. 532; Parker v. Cameron, Tex.Civ.App., 125 S.W.2d 353; Evans v. Swartz, Tex.Civ.App., 264 S.W. 234.
It follows that appellee’s motion for rehearing must be overruled.