Case ID: ill-app_205/html/0336-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Holdom", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Grossfeld & Roe Company, Appellee, v. William Junker Company, Appellant.
    Gen. No. 22,796.
    (Not to he reported in full.)
    Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Perry L. Persons, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed April 16, 1917.
    Rehearing denied April 30, 1917.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by Grossfeld & Roe Company, plaintiff, against William Junker Company, defendant, to recover upon a contract for the purchase by defendant of two hundred barrels of sugar, estimated at eighty thousand pounds, at the price of $5.65 per hundred pounds. From a judgment for plaintiff for $240, defendant appeals.
    William R. Brand, for appellant.
    Blum, Wolfsohn & Blum, for appellee.
    
      Abstract of the Decision.
    1. Evidence, § 154*—what constitutes admission, of existence of contract. Testimony of a corporation defendant’s president identifying his letter to plaintiff referring to “our contract of February 8, 1915” and annulling “our contract with you,” held to he an admission of the contract, in an action to recover thereunder in which defendant’s affidavit of merits denied the making of the contract.
    2. Municipal Coubt of Chicago, § 13*—what defenses defendant filing affidavit of merits is confined to. 1 A defendant in the Municipal Court is confined by the rules of that court to the defenses made in his affidavit of merits.
    3. Sales, § 376*—what is measure of damages for breach of com-■tract for purchase of goods. In an action to recover for breach of a contract for the purchase of certain goods, the difference between the contract price and the market price on resale after such breach, held to he the measure of damages.
    4. Municipal Coubt of Chicago, § 13
      
      —when affidavit of defense is insufficient. An affidavit of defense filed in an action in the Municipal Court, stating merely that the defendant did not know plaintiff to he a corporation, held not to he sufficient to put plaintiff to proof of its incorporation.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vole. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice Holdom

delivered the opinion of the court.