Steinmeyer v. Schroeppel

Appellants are in the lumber business at Collinsville, Illinois, and appellee is a building contractor at the same place. On June 10, 1905, appellee was about to erect a building for himself, and left at the office of appellants an itemized , list of lumber, containing thirty-four items, on which he desired them to give him a price. Appellants’ book-keeper set down upon that list, opposite each item, the selling price, but did not add up the column. If correctly added the column would have footed up $1867. One of the appellants made the addition and by mistake made the total $1446. The…