WITHOUT A PARALLEL.
On May 2nd 1890, an mrolite weighing sixty-pounds fell on the land of John Goddard in VY innebago county, Indiana, Peter Hogland dug it up and conveyed it toMiis home and sold it as his own to H. V. Winchell for $lO5. Goddard asserted that the meteor was his, as It fell on his land. Hogland claimed it, as he discovered it first, and it fell from Heaven. The matter re—- | suited in a suit, which was decided October 4th. The Court held that the stone became part of the soil on which it Gil, and that Hogland had no right to remove it. The defence argued that whatever was moveable and found on the surface of the earth, unclaimed by any owner, was supposed to be abandoned by the proprietor. The Supreme Court, to which the case was appealed, ruled that as this stone was in the earth and practically unmoved, and was placed there by nature, it was a stone included generally under the property to be claimed. The case is unique, with no established precedent.
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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 178, 30 December 1892, Page 6
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181WITHOUT A PARALLEL. Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 178, 30 December 1892, Page 6
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