REGINA — The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the case involving a grain contract and an emoji.
The court dismissed the application from Chris Achter, who wanted to appeal the Saskatchewan court decision that a thumbs-up emoji served as a signature to the contract.
The court of King’s Bench ruled in 2023 that when a buyer from South West Terminal at Gull Lake, Sask. sent Achter a contract by text in 2021, and he responded with the emoji, it constituted a signed contract. When Achter didn’t deliver 87 tonnes of flax that fall, the company sued him for breach of contract.
The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal later upheld the decision, leaving Achter responsible to pay more than $82,000, plus interest, and costs.
Achter took the case to the Supreme Court, which said today it had dismissed it with costs to be paid by the respondent.
