Hefinds money in HER wall, and wants to keep it?

My wife and I couldn't believe this story -- seriously, I think we sat speechless for a minute or two before it sank in. He has a lawyer? He's suing her?

So, in an alternate example, say a plumber working in my house goes into my crawl space to fix a pipe and encounters a partially sunken treasure chest filled with gold doubloons that has been revealed by water from the leaky pipe. I guess the plumber gets the treasure chest and I'm just screwed. Great reasoning. Can you imagine what that legal precedent would do to individual property rights -- essentially setting a formal standard for "finders keepers, losers weepers"?

The guy should be flogged for passing on the 10 percent offer from the lady, and the lawyer should be drummed out of the profession for taking the case. I hope it goes to trial, he loses and then has to pay HER legal fees, too!

People are so greedy these days. Some of the bills in the stash were pre-WW1 and worth about ten times their face value to a collector. The actual value of the money is about half a mil so there is plenty for the contractor if he takes 10%.

I bet after reading this story few people will want to hire him to work on their houses.

I agree. I can't believe his audacity to think he is entitled to what is behind her wall.

If he tears dow the drywall and finds concrete bricks he isnt entitled to the concrete bricks what changes if the bricks were made of gold (in this case money).

If he tears down the wall and finds snakes is he now the owner of a bunch of snakes?

If she offered him 10% I think that is nice of her to do that.

But he is a jerk who decides to sue her.

As someone who lives in Cincinnati that is what I would expect from a contractor in Cleveland though.

if he finds the money in her house and he wants to keep it then he is stealing someones property and is against the law the money is rightfully hers. if he sues her he will not win she will win and own more money the he found in the wall