96 Ga. 606 | Ga. | 1895
The facts necessary to a. clear understanding of this case are stated in the official report.
The first great essential in the interpretation of contracts is to arrive at what was the real intention of the parties. Where the contract is in writing, the intention of the parties must be arrived at by considering the legal effect of the language -which they employ. If this language be ambiguous, parol evidence is admissible to explain the ambiguity. If the contract between the parties consists of a series of written instruments, it is necessary, in order to arrive at its real meaning, that these instruments be construed together; and applying this latter rule to the contract now under consideration, we have no difficulty in concluding that the contract
Judgment affirmed.