Alcorn v. Christian

Citations

• 4 Pa. Super. 594
• 1897 Pa. Super. LEXIS 170

Syllabus

<p>Contract — Nudum pactum — Want of consideration.</p> <p>A commission broker placed certain orders for flour with a miller which the latter accepted and upon which commissions became due to the broker. The miller sold his.mill and business, including these orders to defendant. Defendant volunteered an assurance to plaintiff “ that he would receive his commissions no matter when the flour was shipped.” Held, On a suit instituted to recover commissions thus alleged to be due, that defendant’s promise was purely gratuitous, an agreement without apparent consideration, to pay the antecedent debt of another, and of no binding, force and effect in law.</p>