Otto Baedeker & Associates, Inc. v. Hutton

This case is based upon an alleged written contract by defendant, a Spokane hotel keeper, to purchase publicity from plaintiff at the rate of one hundred dollars per year in the annual editions of a travel book, compiled by plaintiff, for the years 1929' and 1930, and thereafter until canceled by registered mail by either party at a fixed time preceding the date of subsequent editions.

When defendant received the 1929 travel book, together with a bill for one hundred dollars, he sent back the bill, with a statement written thereon that he knew nothing about it. Plaintiff answered by sending…