Oregon Supreme Court December 15, 1859 (Hoxie v. Hodges)

Stratton, J.

Exception was taken to the rejection of the above deposition, and that is now assigned as the first error, and presents the main’question in the case.

There is no principle of law better established, than that parol contemporaneous evidence is inadmissible to contradict or vary the terms of a valid written instrument. (1 Green-leaf Ev. 2Y5.