Supreme Court declines Saskatchewan farmer's thumbs-up emoji contract case
The Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to a verdict that found a thumbs-up emoji met signature requirements and was a legally binding agreement between Achter and Kent Mickleborough, a grain buyer with South West Terminal.
Country's highest court dismissed application by farmer Chris Achter
The Supreme Court of Canada has given a thumbs-down to hearing a legal case involving an emoji.
The country's highest court dismissed an application by farmer Chris Achter to appeal a decision by the Court of Appeal of Saskatchewan.
The decision means a verdict that found a thumbs-up emoji met signature requirements and was a legally binding agreement between Achter and Kent Mickleborough, a grain buyer with South West Terminal, will stand.
In 2021, Mickleborough sent a text to Achter with a contract for a delivery of flax, and the farmer responded with a thumbs-up emoji.
Achter didn't deliver the product, and the company took him to court for breaching the contract.
The Supreme Court says costs are to be given to the grain company.
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A Saskatchewan farmer hoped the Supreme Court of Canada would overturn an earlier decision that found the thumbs-up emoji he sent to South West Terminal counted as a legally binding acceptance of a contract to sell his flax. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case.