Linder v. Cole Bros. Lightning-Rod Co.

The lightning-rod company sued Linder for the purchase-price of about 200 feet of lightning-rod, which had been ordered under a written contract stating that it was not subject to countermand, except by mutual consent. The petition alleged delivery. The plea set up that, though the defendant had signed the contract, he had never accepted any of the lightning-rods from the plaintiff, and had renounced the contract, for that, within a few hours after the contract was made, and before the plaintiff had been put to any expense or trouble whatever, or had undertaken to fill the order, he had…