Prairie Farmer Co. v. Taylor

This action, in form, was indebitatus assumpsit, to recover for the value of a printing press alleged to have been sold "to appellant. The declaration contains only the common counts.

The proposition of appellees to put up a press for the company was formally accepted, and this constitutes the contract between the parties. It is as follows :

“We will make and set up in your press room, in complete running order, within seventy days from the acceptance of this proposition, one of our four-roller, 34x52 drum-cylinder printing presses, same style as those recently put into the Republican, Tribune,…