LUTHER WILLIAMS, JR., INC. v. JOHNSON

No. 4039.

229 A.2d 163 (1967)

LUTHER WILLIAMS, JR., INC., a corporation, Appellant, v. Joseph JOHNSON and Annle Mae Johnson, Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 2, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rex K. Nelson, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Eugene M. Beckford, Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, MYERS, Associate Judge, and QUINN (Associate Judge, Retired).


QUINN, Judge:

Appellant (plaintiff below) sought to recover $670 as liquidated damages under a contract for improvements on appellees' home. Appellees' defense was that the contract never came into existence because of an unfulfilled condition precedent. This appeal raises the sole question of whether the parol evidence rule required exclusion of all testimony regarding the alleged condition.

At the trial, Luther Williams, Jr., president of appellant corporation...

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