Case ID: ill-app_204/html/0299-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John F. Campbell Company, Appellee, v. Lawrence Ice Cream Company, Appellant.
    Gen. No. 22,718.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Abstract of the Decision.
    Corporations, § 516
      
      —when evidence is sufficient to show sale to corporation and not to officer. In an action to recover the agreed price for goods sold and delivered, evidence held to warrant the finding that the goods were ordered by telephone from the defendant’s office for the defendant and not for the president of the defendant company, who was buyer for it and gave the order.
    
      Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John Courtney, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed March 12, 1917.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by John F. Campbell Company, a corporation, plaintiff, against Lawrence Ice Cream Company, a corporation, defendant, to recover the agreed price for two hundred barrels of sugar sold and delivered. From a judgment for plaintiff for $1,502.77, defendant appeals.
    Pope Hoig, Fuller & Lee, for appellant.
    Newton Wyeth and Blake C. Smith, for appellee.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely

delivered the opinion of the court.