Claeson v. Hennessey

JUDGE REYNOLDS

delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiffs Carl W. Claeson and Ruth Claeson, husband and wife sued Gilbert H. Hennessey for $7620 claiming a breach of a written contract entered into by the parties on the 5th day of May 1956. The defendant Gilbert H. Hennessey was engaged in the florist business in Springfield, Illinois under the name of Hennessey Florist and had been in business some forty years. In the March issue of the “Florist’s Review,” a florist trade journal, the defendant advertised under “Help Wanted” for a man to work in greenhouse work and to get into the…