26 Or. 49 | Or. | 1894
Opinion by
The contention for the plaintiff is that the allegations of the answer, and the evidence tending to support it, violated the well-settled rule of law that a written contract cannot be contradicted or varied by parol evidence. This rule is not questioned, but the answer and evidence excluded did not contradict the terms of the promissory note sued on; they merely tended to show that it was delivered to take effect as an unconditional binding obligation upon the defendants only in the event of Blum’s failure to comply with his agreement to account for the Ramsay notes, or their proceeds. In other words, according to the answer and the evidence excluded, the promissory note sued on was not intended, except in case of Blum’s default, to become a binding obligation on the part of the