You work for a waste management company, and your job is to sort out the recycled material from the customers whose recycling your company picked up.  Today, you are going through the recycled material from Todd Meyer's house (assume it can be identified).  As you are going through this you find a lottery ticket, and decide to keep it check if it might be a winner. Later that day you take it to a store, have it checked and it turns out that it is $1 million winner.  Between you and Todd, who gets the million and why?  What is the rule of law? 

Between you and the owner of the recycling business who owns the million dollars, and what is the rule of law? 

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Determining Ownership of the Found Lottery Ticket The legal ownership of the 1 million lottery ticket found in Todd Meyers recycling presents a comple... View the full answer