Contractor finds money stash--what's the right thing?

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Interesting story...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071213...idden_money;_ylt=AgajVAOAkDs04mpysKf2sSqs0NUE

The courts will make a legal call and I'm guessing they'll side with the homeowner, granting her the entire find. But morally, what do you think is right and why?
He just happened to be hired for the job, but I think he deserves something for his honesty. He could have said nothing and made out with the entire find. "SorryIcantfinishthejobnoneedtopaymeIgottagobye".
 
I think this is simple? If I were to find a dollar underneath your couch in your home, I would not consider that I had any rights to it.
The home owner should at least, as you say, reward the contractor with something.....
 
The homeowner gets it. The contractor has a dire misunderstanding of the law -- FTA: 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. The "owner" is right there -- it's the guy you're suing. He took ownership of the cache when he bought the house.

The contractor should've taken the 10% offered and been happy with it. Now it'll go to court, and he'll get nothing.
 
NSXGB said:
The home owner should at least, as you say, reward the contractor with something.....
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He tried to -- he offered 10% of the take, which is more than fair. He doesn't have to offer anything. The contractor wants it all, or at least half.
 
I dont see why the contractor think he should get it at all. Its not his house. He was hired by the owner to do the work.

he should feel blessed to get 10%. I think I should go drill for oil or dig for treasure on my neighbors land and if I hit any then I get it. :biggrin:
 
Aero said:
I dont see why the contractor think he should get it at all. Its not his house. He was hired by the owner to do the work.

he should feel blessed to get 10%. I think I should go drill for oil or dig for treasure on my neighbors land and if I hit any then I get it. :biggrin:
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From the way I have been told, if you dig on your property and hit oil but the pocket is on adjoining land the person who owns the land the pocet is on get nothing.

I have found lots of items of value in houses that I own and have done work on. The last find was a stash of musical insturments in an attic. Some were pretty valuable. I have found money, photos, guns, coins, posters, collectible glassware, In one house we found an entire room that was boarded up and walled over. The room was full of antiques. That find was a fluke as we did not plan on doing any construction in that area of the house but this big fat guy leaned up against the wall and the wall board broke. A small peice fell to the floor inside what we thought was the wall. As soon as it hit the floor everyone stopped because we all knew the sound was not natural. I peered in the hole of the wall with a flashlight and said WOW!

I still have a sword I found inside a wall from the civil war era.

Someday I will find that stash of money I just know it.

I would have loved to find this stash...

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Re: "5 tons of ephedrine, no problem'o..."

steveny said:
You make it sound so......legit.
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Off Topic : Steve love reading your posts but your NEW Avatar made me LOL :tongue:
 

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