A Saskatchewan farmer replied to a picture of a flax contract with a thumbs-up emoji 👍. Justice Timothy Keene ruled that the emoji met signature requirements, and therefore the farmer breached the contract when he didn't deliver the flax.
A Saskatchewan judge says an emoji can amount to a contractual agreement and ordered a farmer to pay more than $82,000 for not delivering product to a grain buyer after responding to a text message with a thumbs-up image.
Achter texted back a thumbs-up emoji. But when November came around, the flax was not delivered and prices for the crop had increased. “I deny that he accepted the thumbs-up emoji as a digital signature of the incomplete contract,” Achter said in an affidavit to court.
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