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INSTITUTE OF COMMERCIAL ART v. MAURICE

272 Wis. 499 (1956)

INSTITUTE OF COMMERCIAL ART, INC., Appellant, vs. MAURICE, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

April 3, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief and oral argument by A. D. Sutherland of Fond du Lac.

For the respondent there was a brief and oral argument by George J. Laird of Fond du Lac.

BROADFOOT, J.

The plaintiff contends that evidence of conversations between its agent and the Maurice family was not admissible. At the trial such evidence was objected to on the ground that parol evidence is not admissible to vary the terms of a written contract. These objections were overruled and the evidence was admitted.

The rule against the admission of parol evidence to vary the terms of a written contract does not exclude evidence of fraud which tends...

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