Bell Grocery Co. v. Letts-Fletcher Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Affirming.

The Letts-Fletcher Company is a wholesale grocer .at Marshaltown, Iow-a. The Bell Grocery Company is a .grocer at Pineville, Kentucky. J. F. Sake & Co. are grocery brokers at Evansville, Indiana. In. July, 1920, Sake & Co. sent out circulars offering to sell standard cane granulated sugar at twenty-two cents, delivered. The Bell Grocery Company wrote them that they would take two hundred bags of 100 pounds each at this price, and perhaps more. On July .23, Sake & Co. telegraphed it •this answer to its letter:

“Answering subject confirmation…