LEGL 2700- test 3 cases, Roessing
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
Popov v. Hayashi
✓ Property rights
✓ highly valued homerun baseball possession case; ended in a partition
ruling- judge split the proceeds of the baseball between the 2 men,
most of the money went to their lawyers
Pierson v. Post (NY 1805)
✓ One guy tired out fox by chasing and another guy shot and killed it.
Court favored the one who shot it
Swift v. Gifford (1877 Mass.)
✓ hunting whales, first one holds the whale, not law but custom, Gifford
(first one to spear it) gets whale
✓ "first iron holds the whale"
Ghen v. Rich (1888 Mass)
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