Plaza Farmers' Union Warehouse & Elevator Co. v. Ryan

Citations

• 78 Wash. 124
• 138 P. 651
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 988

Syllabus

<p>Biils and Notes — Orders—Acceptance—What Constitutes. It is not an acceptance of an order, within the negotiable instruments act, to return the same with the statement that the amount due is same as the order, but that the drawee did not know if the drawer’s hands had been paid and will have to wait until thirty days are up; Rem. & Bal. Code, §§ 3522, 3531, defining an acceptance as the signification of the drawee’s assent to the order, which must not express a promise to perform other than by payment in money, and providing that a qualified acceptance is one that makes payment dependent upon a condition therein stated, or which agrees to pay only part of the amount.</p>