Putty Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 Check it...http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071213/ap_on_fe_st/odd_house_hidden_money_2Now worth $500K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flounder Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 Wow..... Hey putty,, can I come over and smash your walls in.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r6allstar Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 I personally think the guy has no right to the money.. whether he found it or not. It was located on a property that the woman owns and he was just doing his job. The money belongs to the woman IMO.. he should have just taken the 10% b/c after court cost and lawyers fees he will be in the red when he loses the case Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yotaman88210 Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 Damn, I want to find some! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrish Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 I have found blue prints in a house that were 100 years old but no money , I found some old ass comic books,beer bottles even some old teeth....never kept anything always gave it to the owner ...unless they said I could keep it!!That guy is a dumbass I hope he blows all his own money on court and gets nothing!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Putty Posted December 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 I personally think the guy has no right to the money.. whether he found it or not. It was located on a property that the woman owns and he was just doing his job. The money belongs to the woman IMO.. he should have just taken the 10% b/c after court cost and lawyers fees he will be in the red when he loses the caseThat is what the typical person thinks...however, the law sees it otherwise in Ohio..."Kitts asserts he found lost money, and court rulings in Ohio establish that a "finders keepers" law applies if there's no reason to believe any owner will reappear to claim it.""Therefore, since the homeowner did not know it was there....the actual owner is dead, so no one technically owns it...."finders keepers" is legitimate claim. I would have taken it all....dug a huge hole in my yard and said I found it there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleaner Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 That is what the typical person thinks...however, the law sees it otherwise in Ohio..."Kitts asserts he found lost money, and court rulings in Ohio establish that a "finders keepers" law applies if there's no reason to believe any owner will reappear to claim it.""Therefore, since the homeowner did not know it was there....the actual owner is dead, so no one technically owns it...."finders keepers" is legitimate claim. I would have taken it all....dug a huge hole in my yard and said I found it there...I'm 99.9% sure that that law only applies in a public place. As a result if you drop a $20 bill in the Men's Room, I can claim it under the "Finder's" law. However, that is not the same situation as the person's house. When the person purchased the house they purchased everything left in it by the prior owner. Everything from the roaches to the stack of money in its walls. The only person to possibly have a right to the money would be its original owner who left it in the wall. They have a possible claim to it, not the contractor.Additionally, the contractor was paid to complete a task. He is being paid for that task and not to snoop around the house and find something that may or may not belong to him. That's like if you are at work at Nationwide and in the cabinet you find $10k. NO WAY that money is yours. The guy should've taken the 10% and been happy. But greed will get you every time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flounder Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 Im sure he will fight is with the fact that he had to remove the items in order to complete the renovation and removable items due to renovation are his to dispose of as he pleases.. Im not a lawyer, Im just playing devils advocate.. Im sure he will get away with it and I really dont have all that much of a problem against it mainly because its not happening to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleaner Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 COURT OF APPEALS OF MISSOURI, KANSAS CITY DISTRICT240 Mo. App. 818CASE SUMMARYPROCEDURAL POSTURE: Appellant finders challenged the judgment of the Circuit Court of Schuyler County (Missouri), which found in favor of intervenor property owner in the finders' action against respondent excavator in replevin for possession of an ancient Indian canoe found embedded in the owner's property.OVERVIEW: The finders found the canoe embedded in the soil while they were swimming in a river that ran through the property owner's land. The finders showed the canoe to the excavator, who removed it from the soil. On appeal, the court held that the trial court could only have found that the canoe was once the personal property of persons unknown and that it was by the forces of nature embedded in the soil of land of the property owner. The court noted that it was the presumption that property found embedded in the soil belonged to the owner of the property. The court indicated that the property owner claimed not only the surface of her land, but everything within the soil including the canoe that was embedded therein. The court determined that because the canoe was a part of the realty prior to its severance, the life tenant had no right to sever it, and the canoe belonged to the property owner who was the owner of the next vested estate of inheritance.OUTCOME: The court affirmed the judgment in favor of the property owner.Wasn't able to find anything on point in the time I was willing to dedicate, but this is close enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flounder Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 Different judges, different states, who knows what the outcome will be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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