Issues
- Is manure abandoned on a road by passing horses property subject to the laws of trover?
- Does manure abandoned on the road by passing horses become a part of the land, and in essence attached to it as part of the fee of ownership?
- Does a person who gathers the manure into heaps improve it, and hence have claim to ownership?
- Does a third party who happens by and takes as his own the manure which has been placed in heaps by another commit a conversion?
- If the third party is guilty of committing a conversion, what are the damages to the plaintiff?
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