Your home is burglarized. Among the stolen items is a $3,000 custom-made pendant
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Your home is burglarized. Among the stolen items is a $3,000 custom-made pendant from your grandmother. You are heartbroken. The lead detective on the case, Jack Clouseau, is as bad as the inspector in the movies, so you circulate flyers around the neighborhood and the local stores and pawn shops and offer a $500 reward for information leading to the recovery of the item, no questions asked. Shortly thereafter, you receive a call from Giovanni, the local pizza parlor owner telling you he saw the local hoodlum’s girlfriend, DeeDee Flat wearing the pendant described in your flyer. You call the police and meet them at the pizza parlor, where DeeDee is confronted and placed under arrest. DeeDee claims she purchased the pendant from the local pawnshop and is a bona fide purchaser for value. While this drama unfolds, Giovanni receives a certified letter informing him that the pizza ovens he ordered F.O.B. point of shipment from Philadelphia were destroyed in transit. The letter includes a bill for the ovens. Giovanni is outraged. He never even saw the ovens and he is being billed for them.Giovanni is now claiming the reward. Does he collect? Explain.
ii. DeeDee claims because she is a bona fide purchaser for value, that she is entitled to keep the pendant. Is she correct? Why or why not?
iii. Who is responsible for the loss of the pizza ovens in transit the shipper or Giovanni
Explanation / Answer
Yes because it was a unilateral contract. In order for the offeree to collect the reward first he or she must have knowledge of the reward prior to completing the requested act and second he or she must perform the requested act (Cheeseman, 2010). Giovanni called about the pendant described in the flyer indicating he saw the reward being offered. The police cause the accused therefore, Giovanni should be able to collect
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