Moultrie Grocery Co. v. Charleston Milling Co.
Moultrie Grocery Co. v. Charleston Milling Co.
Opinion of the Court
1. A broker at Albany, Georgia, made an offer by telegram on July 18, 1916, to the Charleston Milling Company, a corporation situated at Charleston, Missouri, to sell to the Moultrie Grocery Company “2000 barrels of flour, basis Eclipse Brand, plain, sacked, delivered Moultrie,” at $5.85 per barrel, and in reply to his offer received the following telegram from the Charleston Milling Company: “Decline Moultrie. Will book School Days $6.40; Eclipse, plain, $6.10; self-rising $6.30; Queen South, self-rising, $5.20; put your force behind Eclipse. Have understand
While a contract may be made by telegrams, the telegrams which were the basis of this suit did not constitute a complete contract between the Moultrie Grocery Company and the Charleston Milling Company, since the broker’s offer was not accepted by the seller unequivocally, unconditionally, and without variance. There was no mutual assent of the parties to the same thing in the same sense. Robinson v. Weller, 81 Ga. 704 (8 S. E. 447); Stix v. Roulston, 88 Ga. 748 (15 S. E. 826); Harris v. Lumber Co., 97 Ga. 465 (25 S. E. 519); Larned v. Wentworth, 114 Ga. 209 (39 S. E. 855); Harper v. Ginners Mutual Insurance Co., 6 Ga. App. 139, 142 (64 S. E. 567); Phinizy v. Bush, 129 Ga. 479; Pennsylvania Fire Ins. Co. v. Sorrells, 23 Ga. App. 398 (98 S. E. 358). The trial judge therefore did not err in granting a nonsuit.
2. Under the above ruling it is unnecessary to pass upon the 5th ground of error set out in the bill of exceptions, in which it is alleged that the defendant in the court below waited an unreasonable length of time to repudiate or refuse to accept the order made by the plaintiff in the court below for the sale and purchase of the flour.
Judgment affirmed.
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