Glover v. Jewish War Veterans of United States
District of Columbia Municipal Court of Appeals
68 A.2d 233 (1949)
After a private organization, the Jewish War Veterans (JAWUS) (defendant), published a $500 reward offer for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a murder victim's killers, Mary Glover (plaintiff) was independently questioned by police and voluntarily provided information -- the names and addresses of relatives who might be hosting her daughter and the murder's other suspect -- that led to the suspect's arrest; Glover and her husband learned of the reward only days after she'd already given the information to police, having had no knowledge of it beforehand. Glover sued JAWUS for the reward, the trial court ruled she wasn't entitled to it, and she appealed.
Whether a person who voluntarily provides information to police, without knowledge of a private reward offer for that information, may later recover the reward as an accepted contractual offer.