Owens v. Bruce

WADDILL, District Judge.

The question presented by this appeal is tbe correctness of the decision of tbe lower court in determining tbe effect of a certain offer made by the, appellant, Frank C. Owens, to the appellee, trustee of tbe bankrupt estate, for tbe purchase of tbe bankrupts’ stock of goods, arising from tbe use of tbe words, referring to the said trustee’s advertisement of tbe stock of goods, “Inventorying $10,571.76, as per your circular letter,” tbe con*73tention of the appellant being that, as Alverson Bros, had acquired about $1,400 of the stock thus advertised at 50 per cent, of…