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Show Tin: ommi-siiip op Aruoiurs. The supreme courts of the country are having a good deal Hint It Important Import-ant ami Interesting to past upon nowadays; now-adays; occasionally, also, thoy have to contend with a proposition that la novel. One of the most unforeseen problems that ever engaged tho attention atten-tion cf any tribunal was recently ad-JudltuUid ad-JudltuUid by the supremo court of Iowa, dealing at It did with matter not of the eatth, the subject In controversy contro-versy being nothing more or less than a meteor. The question as to the ownership own-ership of tho visitor from other realms was lu dlsi ute, aud Iho court held that a "bolt from heaven" which has become be-come partly burled lu a farmer's (or, vro resume, anybody else's) laud Is placed there by nature aud bchngs tu the land, ergo to the owner of tho land. A tlranger or outsider who may have teen tho visitation first, have been the only ono In attendance attend-ance when It arrived, anl whi tinder ordinary circumstances would have tne rights In tho promise as the uietoveror tho court holds Is not "In It" at all; he hat no moro right to the meteoric ttono than he has to nuy other buulder on another man's ground. As tbo question never aroeolrl court tieforc, to fir m tho record! show, and It not likely to occur again, It muy bo considered at thoroughly eeltloJ; uu-leas, uu-leas, Indeed, the discoverer should choose to take hit cato ttflhe United States Hupreme Court on tho ground that It la a eutject Involving a foreign country. |
