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

[MARK BOSTICK]

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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