Lucas v. Wallace

This was a suit brought by appellee against appellant to recover the value of a cow which appellant had agreed to give to appellee for the consideration hereafter mentioned. The suit was instituted before a police magistrate and afterward appealed to the Circuit Court, where the appellee recovered for the value. of the cow, found by the jury to be $30.

The appellant advertised for a public sale of full bred and high grade Polled Angus cattle and other stock, to take place on his farm one mile west of Abingdon, Knox County, Ill. In the advertisement the appellant says: “ In order to make things…