Message text written by "BP - \"Shinola Heretics United\""
>There's a famous old Michigan Supreme Court case about logs which washed
up on a riverbank and sat on some guy's land for a few decades.  When he
decided to get rid of them or salvage them, a lawsuit ensued, and the
court ruled that the logs still belonged to the lumber company.

This is usually cited as evidence of how much clout the lumber companies
had in Michigan back then.

Nowadays, I suspect if you left something on somebody else's land for as
little as 10 years, and made no effort to consult them about it, you might
have trouble getting it back.
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One of the Talmud sessions I slept through as a kid involved debate over a
case involving somebody's house being washed downstream by an overflowing
Jordan River. Does the house belong to the guy whose land the house is
deposited upon? Unfortunately I never expected this to have any practical
importance in my life and I slept through the answer.

Mike E.