Legal Opinion

Sackett v. Centaur Motor Co.

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided November 9, 1914No. Gen. No. 20,132PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. William N. Gemmill, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1914.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker

It may be conceded that the defendant could not have enforced the alleged contracts with the retail dealers, nor that with the Milwaukee Company, because such contracts were for the purchase of seven different patterns of cars, each at a specified price, and it was optional with the prospective purchaser to take all or any part of his cars of any pattern or patterns, and the alleged contracts were therefore uncertain and lacked mutuality. It may also be conceded that such contracts were at most executory contracts for the sale of cars, and not sales under which the title passed before…

2Cited by5 opinions

  1. Zinn v. Ex-Cell-O Corp.California Supreme Court · 1944
  2. Weick v. Rickenbaugh Cadillac CompanySupreme Court of Colorado · 1956
  3. Graubremse GMBH v. Berg Manufacturing & Sales Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1969
  4. Graubremse Gmbh v. Berg Manufacturing & Sales Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1969
  5. Thompson v. FrelinghuysenAppellate Court of Illinois · 1915

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