Cook v. Story

Citations

• 89 Wash. 109
• 154 P. 147
• 1916 Wash. LEXIS 662

Syllabus

<p>Sales — Express Contract — Tentative Agreements — Diability op Buyer After Repudiation by Seller. Where a tentative contract for the sale of goods was entered into with an agent subject to approval, and the seller did not approve but repudiated it and offered a new contract which the buyer rejected, cancelling all outstanding orders, there was no express contract of sale upon which the seller could recover for goods forwarded, and the buyer was not obligated to accept goods ordered on the faith of the tentative contract as a working basis, where the seller repudiated the contract before the arrival of the goods; nor could the seller, after having repudiated the contract, claim a ratification of it by previous orders under it.</p>