28 Ga. App. 687 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1922
(After stating the foregoing facts.) Section 5791 of Park’s Code provides as follows: “ If the writing does not purport to contain all the stipulations of the contract, parol evidence is admissible to prove other portions thereof not inconsistent with the writing.” The instrument quoted is primarily a receipt; but even though it be such in form, if it embodies also the terms of an. agreement, it must be treated as a contract and subject to the rules governing ordinary contracts in writing. Southern Bell Tel. Co. v. Smith, 129 Ga. 558 (59 S. E. 215). But especially, however, since it is primarily a receipt and only incidentally can be taken to embody other stipulations, the section of the code just quoted should certainly have the fullest application. Barclay v. Hopkins, 59 Ga. 562. Still, in order to give operation to this rule, it must not only appear from the instrument itself or from the attendant circumstances that the writing, treated as a contract, is incomplete, but that the collateral parol agreement which is invoked does not in any way conflict with or contradict the stipulation actually contained in the writing. Forsyth Mfg. Co. v. Castlen, 112 Ga. 199 (6) (37 S. E. 485, 81 Am. St. R. 28); Brosseau v. Jacobs’ Pharmacy Co., 147 Ga. 185 (2) (93 S. E. 293).
Judgment reversed.