business law?

Question

John Hines is a janitor for the First Mercantile Department Store. While walking to work, John finds an expensive watch lying on the curb. John gives the watch to his son, Bill. Two weeks later, Martin Avery, the true owner of the watch, discovers of that John found at the watch and demands it back from Bill. Discuss who is entitled to the watch and why.

Answer 1

Do Martin Avery have a bill of sales with a serial number on it that matches the one in the watch ?

No ?

Then Martin Avery is out of luck because he can't prove the watch is him !

Ja ja ja . Never go to Court without something to prove you are the owner of some property somebody just got !

By the way , have you seeing how O.J. Simpson having proved the stolen property was his some retards have charged him as a terrorist for going and asking nice to be given back to him ?

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Answer 2

It's not really a business law issue -- unless the curb at which John found the watch was the private property of the business he worked for.

It's a standard property law issue -- whether the watch was considered lost or mislaid -- since that status determines whether the finder has superior claims of ownership to the original owner.

The son has the same claim by and through the finder.