Courteen Seed Co. v. Abraham

The defendant assigns error of the court in overruling his motion for nonsuit in and by which he asserts that the evidence fails to show that defendant ever made a binding offer to plaintiff to sell clover seed.

Contracts in general are reached by an offer on the one side and acceptance on the other: 1 Page on the Law of Contracts, § 74. So it becomes necessary to determine whether the defendant actually offered to sell the clover seed to the plaintiff corporation, and whether it was defendant’s intention that contractual relations should exist between them on plaintiff’s acceptance.

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