Opinion
No. 8586.
Argued June 19, 1944.
Decided June 27, 1944.
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; Guy K. Bard, Judge.
Action by Bertrand Russell against Barnes Foundation for breach of written contract of employment. Judgment for plaintiff, 52 F. Supp. 827, and defendant appeals.
Affirmed.
Gerald A. Gleeson, of Philadelphia, Pa. (Edward J. McGrath, of Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellant.
Thomas Raeburn White, of Philadelphia, Pa. (White Staples, of Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.
Before BRATTON, JONES, and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.
The principal question raised by this appeal relates to the trial court's exclusion of certain evidence and is to be determined according to the law of the forum. Restatement, Conflict of Laws § 597. Under the undisputed facts appearing of record, which contain neither averment nor proof of fraud, accident or mistake in the making of the written contract whereon the suit is based, the learned trial judge very properly overruled the defendant's offer to prove by parol evidence an asserted alteration or reformation of the contract. Gianni v. Russell Co., Inc., 281 Pa. 320, 323, 126 A. 791. It was the trial court's action in that connection which the appellant most strongly urged upon us as error. The remaining assignments are equally without merit.
The judgment of the District Court is affirmed.