Cleveland Builders Supply Co. v. City Investment Co.

The City Investment Company, before advertising for bids for the construction of their building known as the Swetland, solicited offers by supply men of such- material as they wished *384to have used in the construction of their building. They solicited of the plaintiff prices for Darlington brick, in large quantities, but to be sold and charged to the contractor when one was engaged. The Cleveland Builders Supply Company made a written proposition, as requested, for the supply of brick; but since they were to sell to an unknown and unengaged contractor to whom the bills for the brick were to be…