CLIFFORD v. RIVER BEND PLANTATION

No. 823SC1280.

313 S.E.2d 607 (1984)

Frank J. CLIFFORD, and Dolorese R. Clifford v. RIVER BEND PLANTATION, INC.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 3, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Perdue, Voerman & Alford by David P. Voerman, New Bern, for plaintiffs-appellants and appellees.

White, Allen, Hooten, Hodges & Hines by John M. Martin, Kinston, for defendant-appellant and appellee.


WEBB, Judge.

This case brings to the Court questions involving the parol evidence rule. The parol evidence rule is not a rule of evidence but of substantive law. See E. Allan Farnsworth, Contracts, 447 et seq. (1982) for an excellent discussion of the rule. If parties agree to integrate all prior and simultaneous negotiations into a contract, the contract governs their relationship and anything which varies or adds to it is irrelevant. In this case the...

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