Court Opinion

ID: 9865661
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 19:19:38.923355+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:46:55.090669
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOB REHEARING.
The defendant in error very ably and strongly urges that the attempt on the part of Mrs. Silver to cancel the order by letter is an.affirmance and an adoption of a contract. If the salesman had authority to make a complete and binding contract, Ms signature to the order bound the plaintiff; and although the purchaser did not sign the order or contract, under the decisions of our courts the effort to cancel the order in writing would bind her, even though by such writing she sought to cancel the agreement. Capital City Brick Co. v. Atlanta Ice & Coal Co., 5 Ga. App. 436 (63 S. E. 562). On the other hand, if, as is contended by the defendant in error, the salesman had no authority to make a complete contract, but had authority to submit the> offer to buy to his principal for acceptance, in the absence of proof of acceptance and notice to the buyer there was no binding contract, and the effort in writing to cancel the contract was no'mor.e than the withdrawal of the offer before acceptance. It could not be an affirmance of a contract, because it would require acceptance to make the contract complete. In Bush v. American Mills, 28 Ga. App. 324 (111 S. E. 678), there was an acceptance of the offer before the attempt to cancel was made. That fact distinguishes that case from this one. There is no evidence in this case of an express acceptance of the order, and no evidence showing that anything else could or should constitute an acceptance. Certainly, if the plaintiff had not made the hats and had refused to deliver them if it had never accepted the order, it would not be liable for a breach of contract.

B'ehearing denied.