Holly Sugar Corporation v. Fritzler

Summary

Holly Sugar Corporation sued 381 beet growers under Wyoming's Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act and in equity to resolve a contract dispute over Section 17 A of its 1926 beet-growing contracts. The Wyoming Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Declaratory Judgments Act, held that joinder of defendants with separate but substantially identical contracts was proper to avoid a multiplicity of suits, and held that oral representations by plaintiff's agents could not vary the unambiguous written contract under the parol evidence rule. The trial court's decree was affirmed as modified by striking the reservation regarding the effect of the oral representations.