Greenley v. Miller's, Incorporated

The jury might reasonably have found from the evidence these facts: The defendant conducted a store in New Haven dealing in women’s apparel. On July 17th, 1929, it inserted in a New Haven evening paper an advertisement of a special sale on July 18th, 1929, at nine o’clock sharp, of a special lot of dresses at $1 apiece. The plaintiff read this advertisement and went to this store the next morning at about quarter to nine for the purpose of purchasing some of these dresses. There were already quite a few people at the entrance and the plaintiff stood in the entrance way to the store a few feet…