Hurst v. Hutsonville Telephone Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Higbee

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellees in this case, W. B. Hurst and J. H. Holderman, doing business under the name of Hurst Brothers, have been for a number of years engaged in the business of retailing flour, feed, poultry, eggs and ice at Hutsonville, Illinois. During the summer of 1917 they had been purchasing ice from the Lawrenceville Ice and Cold Storage Company of Lawrenceville, Illinois, and on Saturday, July 14, 1917, wrote a postal card to that company requesting the shipment to them of a carload of ice by freight on Wednesday, the 18th of…