Finder

One who lawfully comes to the possession of another’s personal property, which was then lost. The finder of lost property at common law had a valid claim to the same against all the world except the true owner; 1 Stra. 604; Lawrence v. Buck, 62 Me. 275; Mathews v. Ilarsell, 1 E. D. Sm. (N. Y.) 393; Durfee v. Jones, 11 R. I. 588, 23 Am. Rep. 528; Tancil V. Seaton, 28 Gratt. (Va.) 601, 26 Am. Rep. 380; Severn v. Yoran, 16 Or. 269, 20 Pac. 100, 8 Am. St. Rep. 293.

— Generally the pl^ce in which the property is found creates no exception to the general rule; Hoagland v. Amusement Co., 170 Mo. 335, 70 S. W. 878, 94 Am. St. Rep. 740; Weeks v. Hackett, 104 Me. 264, 71 Atl. 858, 19 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1201, another has been held, in the case of a servant in a hotel, as against the proprietor, to belong to the finder; Haniaker v. Blanchard, 90 Pa. 377, 35 Am. Rep. C64;

— to the same effect; Danielson v. Roberts, 44 Or. 108, 74 Pac. 913, 66 L. R. A. 526, 102 Am. St. Rep. G27, where an employee found money hidden and abandoned on his employer’s premises.

So a stranger who finds money in a shop may retain it as against the shop-owner; 21 L.