Mooney v. Daily News Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $1,250, tbe value of an automobile offered in a newspaper contest.
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Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $1,250, tbe value of an automobile offered in a newspaper contest. The complaint alleged that defendant procured an automobile of specified manufacture and description, which it offered and promised to give to any person in a given territory entering the contest and securing the largest number of yearly paid-up subscriptions to defendant’s newspaper, in accordance with certain rules governing the contest and published by it; that plaintiff pursuant to such proposition secured and paid to defendant in cash in advance a sufficient…
1Opinion of the CourtSimpson, J.
The defendant publishes at the city of Minneapolis 'the Daily News, a newspaper of general circulation throughout the northwest. About June 1, 1910, it instituted what it termed a contest, and offered and agreed to give an automobile costing $1,250 to the- contestant having, on July 30, 1910, the largest number of votes based upon paid subscriptions for the Daily News. It published, together with this offer, rules governing the contest. So far as here material, these rules provide:
“Ten votes will be allowed for every cent paid in advance on subscriptions to the Daily News. * * * Anyone can…
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