{
  "id": 2810959,
  "name": "General Fibre Co., Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent",
  "name_abbreviation": "General Fibre Co. v. State",
  "decision_date": "1936-12-08",
  "docket_number": "No. 1663",
  "first_page": "329",
  "last_page": "331",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "9 Ill. Ct. Cl. 329"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. Ct. Cl.",
    "id": 8793,
    "name": "Illinois Court of Claims"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
  },
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T21:23:12.493466+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "General Fibre Co., Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Chief Justice Holuerich\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nOn August fifteenth, 1929 the claimant company, which was then a wholesale dealer in various fibre materials, received from the respondent, through its Department of Purchases and Construction, a request for a price on twenty thousand (20,000) yards of a certain quality of burlap, f. o. b. Pontiac, for the Illinois State Reformatory, four thousand (4,000) yards to be delivered at once and the balance as ordered by the institution.\nOn August nineteenth, 1929 claimant quoted a price of Nine and Three-fourths Cents ($.09%) per yard on twenty thousand (20,000) yards, to be shipped in bale lots of two thousand (2,000) yards, \u2014 four thousand (4,000) yards at once, balance as required.\nOn August twenty-ninth, 1929 respondent forwarded to claimant a purchase order for twenty thousand (20,000) yards of burlap in accordance with claimant\u2019s proposition;\u2014 \u201cfour thousand (4,000) yards to be shipped at once, balance as ordered.\u201d\nClaimant thereupon purchased in the open market twenty thousand (20,000) yards of burlap for the fulfillment of said contract, and shipped four thousand (4,000) yards to respondent, which was duly received and paid for.\nOn October twenty-ninth, 1929 claimant requested of the Department of Purchases and Construction further shipping \u2022 instructions on the remaining sixteen thousand (16,000) yards. Thereupon the Department of Purchases and Construction requested the Illinois State Reformatory to advise claimant when shipment was to be made.\nOn November fourteenth, 1929 claimant was advised by P. D. Whipp, Acting General Superintendent of the Illinois State Reformatory, that they were unable to use the material at that time, due to the fact that the furniture factory was not operating, and that shipping instructions would be forwarded at a later date.\nOn December fourth, 1929 Mr. W. H. Gehm, acting Factory Superintendent of the Illinois State Reformatory, advised claimant to make no shipment unless advised later to do so. Claimant thereupon advised the Acting General Superintendent of said Illinois State Reformatory that the order in question was not subject to cancellation, and asked for disposition of the remaining goods.\nOn December twenty-third, 1929 said Acting General Superintendent of the Illinois State Reformatory advised claimant to consider the order cancelled, and that any shipments against the same would be refused.\nNo sufficient justification for the cancellation of the contract or the refusal to accept the goods appears from the record, and the claimant is therefore entitled to maintain its action for non-acceptance of the merchandise in question.\nUnder the provisions of the Uniform Sales Act of this State, the proper measure of damages under the facts in this case is the difference between the contract price and the market or current price at the time of the refusal to accept. The contract price was Nine and Three-fourths Cents ($.09%) per yard and the market or current price on the date of the refusal to accept, to-wit: December twenty-third, 1929, was 7.73 cents per yard. Claimant is therefore entitled to receive damages in the sum of $323.20.\nAward is therefore entered in favor of the claimant for the sum of Three Hundred Twenty-three Dollars and Twenty Cents ($323.20).",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Chief Justice Holuerich"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Harrington Wood, for claimant.",
      "Otto Keener, Attorney General; John Kasserman, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 1663\nGeneral Fibre Co., Claimant, vs. State of Illinois, Respondent.\nOpinion filed December 8, 1936.\nHarrington Wood, for claimant.\nOtto Keener, Attorney General; John Kasserman, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent."
  },
  "file_name": "0329-01",
  "first_page_order": 349,
  "last_page_order": 351
}