Cornwells & Elliott v. Krengel & Seiferd

Citations

• 41 Ill. 394

Syllabus

<p>Contract—Try letter—what constitutes. A party ordered by letter a lot of paper to be sent him at once. The party to whom this order was addressed, replied he had none on hand, but offered to make it. The first party again wrote as if the other had accepted his order, which he had not, and again saying he “ wanted the paper to come right along.” The other replied a second time, that he could not send it at once, and advised him if he was in a hurry about it he had better order elsewhere. Here was no contract — no proposition made on one side and accepted on the other.</p>