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IN RE MURPHY

No. 86-3984.

810 F.2d 454 (1987)

In re Raymond T. MURPHY, Patricia W. Murphy, Debtors. Raymond T. MURPHY and Patricia W. Murphy, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WADASH LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 5, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip James McNutt (Goldstein, Blitz & Rosenberg, P.A., Bethesda, Md., on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Marc Robert Kivitz (J. Cookman Boyd, Jr., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before SPROUSE, ERVIN and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.

ERVIN, Circuit Judge:

This contract dispute revolves around the uses to which parol evidence may be put. The familiar rule is that parol evidence concerning the terms of a contract is disallowed if it is prior to a written statement of the contract terms and is inconsistent with those terms. On the other hand, parol evidence may be used to contravene the existence of a contract; parol evidence may call into question whether the parties intended a writing to be a binding...

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