J. H. Sanders Publishing Co. v. Emerson

The plaintiff is the publisher of the Breeder’s Gazette, a journal published in the city-of Chicago, and the defendant is a stock breeder whose farm is in the vicinity of Bowling Green, Missouri. The defendant advertised the stock he had.for sale in the plaintiff’s journal continuously between December 30, 1889, and June 6, 1894, the orders for such advertisements being given exclusively by correspondence. The advertisement was discontinued by defendant’s order in June, 1894. The plaintiff thereupon presented to the defendant a bill for a balance it claimed to be due from him, and, upon the…