Rowntree Bros. v. Bush
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for breach of contract; from Stewart superior court — Judge Littlejohn. June 11, 1921.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenkins, E. J.
1. A person wlio by the United States mail sends to another an offer or proposal .which, requires only the latter’s acceptance or confirmation to create a valid contract, and who says nothing as to how the answer of acceptance or confirmation shall be communicated, nor that it shall take effect only upon the actual receipt of the acceptance by the offerer, impliedly adopts the mails as his agency, and authorizes its use in the transmission to him of an acceptance. Where the recipient of the offer thus duly deposits his acceptance in the mail, in an envelope properly stamped and…
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