Corliss v. Wenner

Corliss v. Wenner, 34 P.3d 1100 (Idaho 2001), was a case decided by the Court of Appeals of Idaho that rejected the common law distinctions between lost, mislaid, and abandoned property and treasure trove.^[1]

Decision

Four pounds of gold coins dating from 1857 to 1914 were found during the excavation of a driveway. The court awarded the property to the owner of the locus in quo instead of the finder and rejected the distinctions between categories of lost property as anachronistic.^[2]

References

1. ^ Casner, A.J. et. al. Cases and Text on Property, Fifth Edition. Aspen Publishers, New York, NY: p. 98
2. ^ Casner, p. 98