Opinion
2005-460 P C.
Decided November 22, 2005.
Appeal from a judgment of the Justice Court of the Town of Carmel, Putnam County (Joseph J. Spofford, Jr., J.), entered November 22, 2004. The judgment, after a nonjury trial, awarded plaintiff the sum of $2,350.
Judgment unanimously affirmed without costs.
PRESENT: RUDOLPH, P.J., ANGIOLILLO and TANENBAUM, JJ.
Plaintiff instituted this small claims action for breach of an oral agreement to complete repairs to a mobile home purchased from defendant. Although defendant provided plaintiff with a bill of sale stating that the mobile home was delivered "as is," it failed to contain all the terms of the agreement and was not signed by plaintiff. As a result, parol evidence was admissible to present plaintiff's version of the facts, which refuted the terms set forth in the "bill of sale" ( see Prince, Richardson on Evidence § 11-106 [Farrell 11th ed]). In view of the foregoing, substantial justice was done between the parties according to the rules and principles of substantive law (UJCA 1807).