[meteorite-list] NPA 03-08-1877 Homestead Meteorite Lawsuit Judgement

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Jan 17 18:28:40 2005
Message-ID: <BAY4-F8C835B13D5F65F278D0B2B38E0_at_phx.gbl>

Paper: Bucks County Gazette
City: Bristol, Pennsylvania
Date: Thursday, March 8, 1877
Page: 4 (of 4)

     The Iowa lawyers have had a wrangle over a meteor. A large fragment of
the big meteor of 1875 fell in the highway on lands owned by the Amana
Society, and a German named Mass picked it up. The society claimed titled
under the law of secretion, the realty of the highway belonging to them, and
whatever came to the land’s natural accretion being part of the realty. The
German put in a counter claim based upon original discovery and the nine
points of the law. The court has decided that the society have the better
title, and the fragment of the meteor will be placed in the State
University.

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Clear Skies,
Mark Bostick
Wichita, Kansas
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Received on Mon 17 Jan 2005 06:27:04 PM PST