Phillipson & Co. v. Grand Trunk Western Railway Co.

The judgment appealed from in this case was for the value of one case of woolen cloth purchased by plaintiff from a manufacturer in Massachusetts and shipped to the plaintiff. When it reached Chicago over the line of the defendant company, the latter gave notice to the plaintiff of its arrival here upon a form which contains the following: “This notice does not constitute an order unless signed by the consignee.” Plaintiff received the notice, stamped its name upon it three times with a rubber stamp and gave it to a messenger boy to be delivered to a firm of teamsters who did all the…