Advised Person B Whether He Is Entitled To The Reward

[vinoth]

person A lost her dog and advertised a reward of Rm 100 to the finder.this appeared in the local paper and Person B saw it.He later found the dog and returned it to Person A who thanked person B profusely.She then said "there's a reward you know"..and person B replied."yes i know,but i would have brought it home anyway." I could see see from its collar where it lived and i am a great lover of dogs and hate to see them lost"person B replied. peson A was a bit short of cash said to person B ."oh well,you will not want the reward ",then and slammed the door.Person B who was also short of cash would like the reward.

[dzug2]

What currency is Rm???

The answer may well differ from English law and I don't think you'll get a reliable answer here

I'd say person B turned down the reward so is not entitled to it

[Eve]

Malaysian Ringg maybe?

[sandyRoe]

Sometimes we have to accept that a good deed in a naughty world is its own reward.

[FredPuli43]

For what it's worth, I don't think B's reply is sufficient to create an estoppel if you hold that he has complied with the terms of a contract created by offer, acceptance and consideration. Nor do I think a contractual offer is not made by the advertisement; we are in Carlill v The Carbolic Smoke Ball territory. You will have to work out for yourself what the situation would be if the reward was advertised but the finder never saw the advertisement at all and returned the dog in total ignorance of it and whether the finder's seeing it makes any difference. I am not going to help you on that.
The point of these test questions in law is to get you to explain all the the elements of law exposed by the facts given and the questions of law which arise. It does not really matter if your decision, yes or no, is contrary to some obscure case on exactly the same facts, because it's 100 to 1 that there is no such reported case; otherwise you should get full marks by simply saying "Yes, see X v Y [1975] 2 All England Reports", or whatever the report is