[meteorite-list] NPA 03-08-1877 Homestead Meteorite LawsuitJudgement

[Gerald Flaherty]

Mark, I'd like to express my appreciation for your continued educational 
posting. I've learned(and quite promptly forgotten--which is why I print 
those pertinent to me)a great deal from them and I do hope you'll continue. 
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MARK BOSTICK" <thebigcollector at msn.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 6:27 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] NPA 03-08-1877 Homestead Meteorite 
LawsuitJudgement


> 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.
>
> (end)
>
> Clear Skies,
> Mark Bostick
> Wichita, Kansas
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