Appellate Court of Illinois, 1916

James J. White & Co. v. de Tarnowsky

Appellate Court of Illinois · Decided December 18, 1916 · Holdom

202 Ill. App. 234; 1916 Ill. App. LEXIS 900

Opinion of the Court

Mr. Justice Holdom

delivered the opinion of the court.

2. Contracts, § 44*—what essential 'to make a contract where acceptance varies -from offer. To make a contract a proposition must be unconditionally accepted, and interpolation in the acceptance of any new condition or any departure from the exact terms of the proposition constitutes a new offer, and before the parties are bound such new offer must be unconditionally accepted by the party making the original proposition.

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