Wabash Railroad v. Wright
Appellate Court of Illinois
Transcript, from a justice of the peace. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Francis Adams, Judge, presiding. Statement.
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Transcript, from a justice of the peace. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Francis Adams, Judge, presiding. Statement. June 13, 1895, appellee commenced this suit against appellant before a justice of the peace, where a judgment was entered against appellant for $125, from which an appeal was taken to the Circuit Court, where there was a jury trial, resulting in a verdict and judgment for $118.90, against appellant, by whom the appeal to this court is prosecuted. July 7, 1894, appellee, who was in the grain and commission business in Chicago, addressed a postal card to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Horton
When appellee received from appellant the quotation of a seven cent freight rate, it was but an offer on the part of appellant to transport grain for appellee at the rate named. The repeated efforts on the part of appellee to get a confirmation of the rate named show that he thought the rate “ a very low one,” as he wrote to Mr. Eidgeway.
The statement by appellee to one of the clerics in the general freight office of appellant, that he would accept the rate named for five car loads, does not, under all the circumstances appearing in this case, show such an acceptance of appellant’s offer as…
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- Chicago & Alton Railroad v. JonesAppellate Court of Illinois · 1894