Court Opinion

ID: 9863724
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 05:53:22.580792+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:04:12.755579
License: Public Domain

BAKES, Chief Justice,
concurring specially:
I concur in the Court’s opinion except that I have some difficulty distinguishing our recent case of Hall v. Hall, 116 Idaho 483, 777 P.2d 255 (1989). I have difficulty understanding why parol evidence is admissible to vary the terms of the Beckley deed of trust in this case when parol evidence was not admissible to vary the terms of the deed in Hall. To permit Dykstra to testify (by affidavit in the summary judgment proceeding) that the deed of trust executed personally by him was in actuality a deed of trust executed by the partnership is as much a variation of the terms of a written document by parol evidence as was the attempt to vary the terms of the warranty deed in Hall v. Hall to show that the deed was, in part, a gift deed. Our decision today certainly limits the decision in Hall v. Hall, if not effectively overruling it. In either event, I concur.