It’s poop suit day* in Property class.
Jack speaks plainly:
Jack: “Apparently in 1869 the roads were covered with manure.”
Poop ensnarement?
Professor P: “Do we have something close to possession of the manure? Like ensnarement?”
Professor P: “Did the manure become wild or unowned?”
Haslem v. Lockwood, 37 Conn. 500 (Conn. 1871) — (Or Westlaw: 1871 WL 1608 )
“The precise legal difference between real and personal property is very confusing; and in an Irish case (where the question was whether a dung-heap was real property) a lawyer made an admirable argument to show that it was.
Then the farmer was called upon to reply and said:
“I’m puzzled indeed by all these strange words. But the lawyer says – fair play to him – that cows is personal property and that the hay they eat is personal property, and I ask your Honour as one man to another, how, baiting miracles, personal property can go on eating personal property and evacuating (he used a homelier word) real property. Well, your Honour, it’s beyond my understanding.
This was to prepare us for Haslem v. Lockwood