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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THE OFFEE AND THE ACCEPTANCE OF A SIMPLE CONTRACT.1 HUDSON v. COLUMBIAN TRANSFER CO. (Supreme Court of Michigan, 1904. 137 Mich. 255, 110 N. W. 402. 109 Am. St. Rep. 679.) Action by Horace A. Hudson against the Columbian Transfer Company. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brings error. Affirmed. Montgomery, J. This action is brought to recover the value of goods stored with the defendant as warehouseman, and destroyed by fire. In March, 1901, plaintiff made a contract to store the goods in question with defendant for hire, on the fourth floor of the building known as 21 and 23 Campau street. This statement is denied, but the question was submitted to the jury, and found in favor of the plaintiff. The plaintiff thereupon took out insurance on his goods as located in the building known as 21 and 23 Campau street, but whether this fact was communicated to the defendant is a matter of dispute; and, as this question was not submitted to the jury, the plaintiff's rights are to be determined upon the assumption that notice of the insurance was not given. The goods were taken from plaintiff's house, and were stored by defendant not in the building known as 21 and 23 Campau street, but in the [adjoining] Hopson-Haftencamp building, where, without negligence on the part of the defendant, they were destroyed by fire. 1 "There are two modes of making simple contracts . The one is, when one party promises to do a certain thing and in consideration of that promise the other party engages to do something on his part. Then as nothing is done but the making of the promises, it is absolutely necessary that mutual, valid promises, amounting to an express contract, should appear; otherwise one of the parties might claim the benefit of the promise of the other, wi...