Court Opinion

ID: 3427682
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 19:56:23.453988+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:55:27.593481
License: Public Domain

This was an action by appellees to recover upon an alleged parol contract for the sale of tobacco. The appellees attempted to introduce a written contract and upon the court's rejection the substance thereof was proven orally. The court found for appellees and rendered judgment accordingly. Appellant's motion *Page 651 
for a new trial being overruled, he brings this appeal, assigning that ruling as error. The reasons assigned in the motion for a new trial are: The decision is contrary to law — the decision is not sustained by sufficient evidence, and, error in allowing proof of the contents of a written instrument by parol and the use of such parol testimony to support an allegation in the complaint of a parol contract.
There is no brief on behalf of appellees.
The appellant has shown prima facie reversible error in the introduction of evidence of a written contract by parol, and in the absence of a showing that the written contract was 1.  lost, destroyed or unobtainable, the judgment of the Dearborn Circuit Court must be reversed and it is so ordered.