DeKalb Implement Works v. Geo. E. White & Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit.—Balance due for goods sold. Appeal from the County Court of DeKalb County; the Hon. O. A. Bishop, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the December term, 1894.
1Opinion of the Court
Hr. Justice Harker
delivered the opinion of the Court.
On the 17th of June, 1893, appellees, who are lumber dealers in Chicago, shipped appellant 3,118 feet of hard wood lumber and on the same day rendered a bill for the same amounting to $118.48. On June 21st, appellant wrote appellees that the lumber was not of the dimensions ordered; that to use it for its purposes would necessitate great waste and that it did not want to accept it unless appellees would stand a portion of the waste. In reply appellees wrote that they had done the best they could to fill the order and offered to take back…
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