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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: A legal puzzle ( question from a non-lawyer )
Message-ID: <251@utastro.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 12:42:28 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  8 12:42:28 1986
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References: <326@milano.UUCP> <1187@dual.UUCP>
Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX
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Summary: Serial numbers

In article <1187@dual.UUCP>, joe@dual.UUCP (Joe Weinstein) writes:
> Suppose an individual leaves his bicycle outside a store and goes in.
> A second individual arrives and does the same with his identical
> bike. The two later return to find one missing ( stolen ).
> Who loses his bike? Has the court ever ruled in such a case?

I have never seen a bicycle without a serial number.  The shop that
sold it will have a record.  So I would say your example is faulty.

-- 
Glend.	I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hot.	Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you
	do call for them?    --  Henry IV Pt. I, III, i, 53

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
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