COOK COUNTY BUILDING, CHICAGO, ILL.
Holabird & Roche, Architects, Chicago, Ill.
Building Completed in 1907. Cost, $5,000,000. Length, 380 ft.; Width, 160 ft.; Height, 204 ft. Eleven Stories, with Sub-Basement Connecting with Tunnel System and Electric Railroad Service Underlying Business Portions of City. Walls, Gray Vermont Granite; Spandrel Sections, Green Terra-Cotta. The Corinthian Columns on the Exterior are 94 ft. Long and 9 ft. in Diameter. General Interior Plan is that of Letter E. Building Contains its Own Electric-Light and Steam-Heating Plants. City Hall, Shown at Left, is Practically a Duplicate of the Old County Building Replaced by this New Structure, and will Itself be Replaced by a Similar Building. Photographed June, 1907, 17 Months after Excavation was Started.
A is obliged to offer B $20.00 at the expiration of five days, and B must give possession to A. If the article sold is to be prepared for delivery, or any work is to be performed on it by the seller before delivery, title does not pass until this work has been completed. If the goods are to be weighed or measured to determine the quantity or price, title does not pass to the purchaser until this has been done. Probably, if the goods are determined upon, and the entire mass is sold and delivered to the seller who is to weigh or measure it to determine the quantity only, the title passes upon delivery.
If the contract, sale provides that goods are to be delivered to a carrier, delivery to the carrier passes title to the purchaser. Delivery to the carrier must be made so as to protect the interests and rights of the purchaser. The goods must be properly packed, and the proper kind of a bill of lading taken.
If goods are sold upon approval, or upon trial, they must be approved or tried before title passes.
If a portion of goods in mass or bulk is sold and the mass or bulk contains different qualities, the portion purchased must be separated and selected before the title passes. If a portion of goods in bulk is purchased, the bulk being of the same quality, separation of the portion sold is sufficient to pass title. Some courts even hold that separation is not necessary to pass title, if the bulk is of the same quality. Title to goods to be manufactured does not pass until the goods are manufactured and tendered.
211. When Payment of Price Must Be Made. Parties to a contract of sale may expressly agree upon a time of payment of the article sold. In this event, the time agreed upon prevails. In the absence of an agreed time of payment, the law presumes that payment is to be made at the time and place of delivery. The seller may retain possession of goods sold, until he receives payment of the agreed price, even though title has passed to the purchaser. If the sale is made on credit, the purchaser cannot be required to pay until the time for which he was to be given credit has expired. In the absence of an agreed time for payment, payment must be made at the time of delivery of the goods.
If the seller reserves any control over the goods, title remains in him. For example, if he is to ship the goods to another, and if he takes the bill of lading in his own name instead of the name of the purchaser, title remains in the seller.
212. Effect of Fraud Upon a Contract of Sale. Fraud has been defined by a prominent author to be "A false representation of facts, made with a knowledge of its falsehood, or recklessly, without belief in its truth, with the intention that it should be acted upon by the complaining party, and actually inducing him to act upon it." If a party innocently makes a representation, even though it proves to be false, the representation is not fraudulent unless the party making the representation should have known, or could easily have discovered, its falsity.