The client has told you that recently, one of its industrial…
The client has told you that recently, one of its industrial fabricators was lost in transit. The client put out an advertisement offering “a $20,000 reward for anyone offering information leading to the location and recovery of” the fabricator. The ad featured a picture of the fabricator, with the client’s logo prominently on the front. One week later, a trucker phoned the client to say that he had seen a fabricator closely resembling the client’s at a warehouse. He photographed the fabricator, including the client’s logo. Based on this information, the client recovered the fabricator. Two weeks later, the trucker phoned the client, demanding the $20,000 reward. The client refused to pay, so the trucker sued the client in Franklin federal court. This lawsuit has moved to trial. The trucker’s ability to recover the reward hinges on whether a unilateral contract existed. If the trucker knew about the reward offer when he gave the information to the client, then a unilateral contract existed. The trucker testified at trial that he knew about the offer when he supplied the tip. You seek to offer testimony by the trucker’s business partner that the trucker told her, in confidence, “I didn’t know about the reward offer when I tipped them off.” The trucker has objected to this testimony. List two factors that favor admitting the testimony and explain why. The length of each answer should be about one sentence.