Jackson v. Steinberg

3 Citing cases

  1. Chappell v. United States

    119 F. Supp. 2d 1013 (W.D. Mo. 2000)   Cited 1 times

    Missouri has not specifically addressed this question, but other jurisdictions have held that possession by the agent is in fact possession by the principal. South Staffordshire Water Co. v. Sharman, 2 L.R.Q.B. Div. 44 (1886); Goodhart, Three Cases on Possession, 3 CAMB. L.J. 195, 205-06 (1928); Jackson v. Steinberg, 186 Or. 129, 200 P.2d 376, 378 (1948). In Ray v. Flower Hosp., 1 Ohio App.3d 127, 439 N.E.2d 942, 945 (1981) the Ohio Court of Appeals stated: "In a long line of cases where hotel chambermaids, bank janitors, bank tellers, grocery store bagboys and other employees have found property while in their employ, virtually every case has charged the employee with the duty to turn the found property over to the employer for safekeeping."

  2. State v. Green

    456 So. 2d 1309 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1984)   Cited 3 times

    Campbell v. Cochran, 416 A.2d at 221. See Favorite v. Miller, 176 Conn. 310, 407 A.2d 974 (1978); Paset v. Old Orchard Bank Trust Co., 62 Ill. App.3d 534, 19 Ill.Dec. 389, 378 N.E.2d 1264 (1978); Jackson v. Steinberg, 186 Or. 129, 200 P.2d 376 (1948). Thus, the burden upon the landlords was to prove that Fuentes voluntarily relinquished his right to the money with the intention of terminating his ownership and of not reclaiming any future rights therein at the time he was removed from his apartment suffering from a debilitating case of bullet wounds in his neck and shoulder.

  3. Farrare v. Pasco

    68 Wn. App. 459 (Wash. Ct. App. 1992)   Cited 4 times

    [2] Property is "lost" when the owner has involuntarily parted with it and does not know its location. 1 Am.Jur.2d Abandoned, Lost, Etc., Property ยง 2, at 4 (2d ed. 1962) (citing Jackson v. Steinberg, 186 Or. 129, 133, 200 P.2d 376, 377 (1948), and other citations). From the manner in which the currency was placed in the locked luggage and the circumstances comprising probable cause to believe the money was drug related, it must be presumed the concealment was deliberate. The currency, therefore, cannot be characterized as "lost".