Hastings-Stout Co. v. J. L. Walker & Co.

Appellee, a corporation, was and is engaged in the wholesale grocery business at Columbus in this state. On August 14,1929, appellee mailed to appellant corporation, at Cairo, Illinois, the following letter: “We thank you for your wire offering No. 2 white oats at fifty-five and three-fourths cents immediate or fifteen day shipment. We are enclosing a wire from Samuel Hastings offering No. 2 white oats at fifty-five and one-half cents. If you want to meet this price, you may book us ten ears of three hundred sacks each to be ordered out as needed. If the market should open lower prices…