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Show Cloud Ownership Question Of Law Here is something new: The Rocking F Ranch, located near the California-Nevada border, bor-der, recently filed a claim to the water in all clouds passing over the ranch. ' The manager says that the success of recent rain-making experiments with dry-ice pellets dropped from airplanes moves him to secure full legal rights to the water he expects to produce pro-duce over the ranch next spring through similar experiments. This is an interesting assertion asser-tion of an ancient legal right. According to the Common Law, the owner of land possessed the area above the land itself. Nevertheless, Never-theless, the claim produces some difficulties. Suppose that ranch workers produced rain from clouds moving over the real estate and the raincloud, propelled pro-pelled by wind, moved over to the land of another ranch owner? |