Losers Keepers, Finders Weepers

[Kentucky Kache]

While paving Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner’s ranch driveway in Idaho, former handyman Gregory Corliss found a buried jar of gold coins dating between 1857 and 1914. Corliss, claiming their value to be over $1 million sued Wenner on the common law principle of "finders-keepers." A three-judge panel of the Idaho Court of Appeals affirmed a district court ruling that Corliss was not entitled to possession of the coins, ruling the state is not one "that accepts the finders-keepers rule, also known as treasure trove" and the coins were buried in property belonging to the property owner. Chief Judge Alan Schwartzman wrote, "the rule of treasure trove is of dubious heritage and misunderstood application, inconsistent with our values and traditions."

—Source: The Columbus Dispatch

[Posted October 19, 2001]

 

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[lonesomebob]

BUMMER

 

[txkickergirl]

had that been in Texas the state would of taken them

 

[Captain Loosechange]

Unless said property owner was riding shotgun on the excavation equipment, how did they ever know the coins were found? People never will learn to keep their mouths shut. 1. Find jar of coins 2. Turn off equipment 3. Exit stage left 4. Call equiment owner tell him to come get his $hi+ you won't be back, this job is just to dangerous. 5. Go somewhere warm and beautiful, live happily ever after.

 

[creskol]

Unless said property owner was riding shotgun on the excavation equipment, how did they ever know the coins were found? People never will learn to keep their mouths shut. 1. Find jar of coins 2. Turn off equipment 3. Exit stage left 4. Call equiment owner tell him to come get his $hi+ you won't be back, this job is just to dangerous. 5. Go somewhere warm and beautiful, live happily ever after.

Exactly! Precisely! That would be the option I would choose!

 

[strickman]

should have kept his mouth shut

 

[GL]

What jar?
Coins? No sir, all I have are these hundreds of greenbacks and this soon to be refilled Daqueri.

 

[olepossum]

honesty is good but why in the hell would you want to make a millionaire even richer not me