Asheville School for Training in Christian Leadership v. Kirk

Mr. Presiding Justice Wilson

delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff brought its action to recover damages for a breach of contract and recovered a judgment for damages in the amount of $800 in the municipal court of Chicago. The cause was tried by the court without a jury. The only question before this court is whether or not the correspondence between the parties constituted a valid agreement under which the defendants agreed to send their son to the plaintiff’s school for the year commencing in September, 1929.

The boy, Samuel Alexander Culbertson II, was the son of Mrs. Wallace F.…