Wallace v. Cook

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

On. August 30, 1919, appellee and defendant below, W. E. Cook, signed and delivered to appellant and plaintiff below, Oliver T. Wallace, a written contract authorizing the latter to sell the farm of the former situated in Garrard county and containing about 500 acres. The contract is in the nature of a letter addressed to plaintiff at his home in Wilmington, North Carolina. It is on a printed form with blanks filled with pencil writing and interlineations and erasures made in the same way. In its completed form, omitting address and signature, it…