Please help! I have been looking all day now and with no luck. I want to find a case in support of this extract from Chitty on Contracts, 31st Ed, Volume 1 - General Principles, Part 2 - Formaiton of Contract, Chapter 2 - The Agreement, Section 4 - Termination of the Offer, Sub-section (b) - Rejection
Rejection Must Be Communicated
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'...If, however, the rejection has reached the offeror, it is submitted that he would not be bound by an acceptance posted after the rejection and also reaching him after the rejection. To apply the “posted acceptance” rule here merely because at the time of posting the rejection had not reached the offeror could expose him to hardship particularly where he had acted on the rejection, e.g. by disposing of the subject-matter elsewhere. An offeree who has posted a rejection and then wishes, after all, to accept the offer should ensure that the subsequently posted acceptance comes to the notice of the offeror before the latter has received the rejection.'