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PHOENIX (AP) - An Arizona court says a man's heirs are entitled to $500,000 cash that was found in the walls of his former home years after he died.
The Court of Appeals ruling Thursday upholds a judge's decision that the money, stashed in ammunition cans inside the walls, belongs to Robert Spann's estate.
That's ridiculous. If you bought the house, you should own what's inside the walls too... good OR bad.
That was my thought as well.
I'm left to assume there was some extenuating circumstance that somehow made this exception to common sense and what should be common law... but if John can't be bothered to even mention such then I'm not gonna open another of his links to go hunt for it.
John has nothing to do with it. If you've paid attention over the years John just posts articles from the media about odd and unusual things that have been reported in the news. These odd news posts pop up in various threads on CD.
The law in this case is on the side of the previous owner/heirs. If it was your house how would you feel or go about getting your inherited money. I read the original article in one of the local papers and the lawyer involved stated that at least in AZ the heirs have a right to any hidden assets no matter what.
John has nothing to do with it. If you've paid attention over the years John just posts articles from the media about odd and unusual things that have been reported in the news (without any text from the body of the article).
Yeah; I've been around long enough to know how he operates.
It's probably been a year or more since I've even opened one of his threads...
let alone the article within it.
The heirs have the same rights as the seller would have were he still alive. If he sold the house, it seems to me that he sold everything in it. This seems akin to someone finding out they sold a house wiat and extremely rate gold plated sink in it worth a million $ and then claiming a right to get the sink back from the buyer, saying oh I meant to take that out.
There was a somewhat similar case in Ohio a while back. I think that purchaser was found entitled to the money in that case.
I wonder how much the judge got from the heirs? Their rulings are ridiculous.If the house fell down, would the heirs be responsible, of course not. People should just keep their mouths shut. I know I certainly will, but I'm never that lucky to find cash. The only things I found were some empty pint bottles of whiskey.
Maybe I should have tried this with the rat I found. "Ehhh... it seems your dad forgot to mention he left a rat in the wall behind the dishwasher, would you mind coming over to get it?"
Here's an interesting little detail that was missing from the article in the OP:
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In 2008, the daughters sold the rundown house “as is” to a couple. The couple did some remodeling, in the course of which a worker for the contracting company found two ammunition cans full of cash in the kitchen wall and another two inside the framing of an upstairs bathroom. The cash totaled $500,000. After the worker reported the find to his boss, the boss took the cans but did not tell the couple who owned the house about them. The worker, however, eventually informed the couple of the discovery and the police ultimately took control of the $500,000.
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