Reckord Manufacturing Co. v. Massey

W. O. Finney, the traveling salesman of Milton A. Reckord, trading as the Reckord Manufacturing Company, the appellant, secured an oral order from E. Thomas Massey, the appellee, for a quantity of cottonseed meal for future delivery- and was requested hy the buyer to reduce the agreement of sale to writing on the salesman’s return to the place of business of his employer and to send the paper writing to the buyer. Three days after the sale, the salesman wrote and mailed, and the buyer duly received, the following letter:

“The Reckord Manufacturing Co.

Merchant Millers.

Flour, Feed, Fertilizers,…