2 Ga. App. 73 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1907
(After stating the foregoing facts.) The usual and implicit power of a traveling salesman is merely to take orders, offers to buy, and not to make completed contracts of sale. Such was the fact in this case. Even in the absence of a condition in the written instrument itself requiring approval or acceptance by the principal, the law would have implied such a condition in the transaction. The writing (although in form, save only for the clause requiring approval, a binding contract) needed something to make it complete, viz., the acceptance of its terms by the opposite party; for, until the opposite party agreed to sell on the terms in the writing mentioned, the promisor’s agreement to buy _ and to pay was without consideration. Until the owners of the piano made a valid promise to sell, the consideration contemplated for the promise to buy and to pay was unilateral, and amounted only to a mere offer. This principle is now so well established by a large volume of authority as not to require specific citations.
Judgment affirmed.