McKeown v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

This case was tried a second time in the circuit court resulting in a verdict for plaintiff for the sum of $478.67. After motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment were overruled, plaintiff remitted 53 cents, and judgment was rendered for the sum of $478.13, and defendant appealed to this court.

Substantially the declaration filed March 30, 1922, charged that on March 26, 1921, the plaintiff received an offer by Western Union wire from John W. Eckhart & Company, of Chicago, to buy from plaintiff 300 barrels of flour at $7.25 per barrel, with direction to answer by wire; that delivery of…