Cash found in Ohio house’s walls becomes nightmare
I found this news in the yahoo news today. At first, I think both of them should devide the money and both can be happy. however, I think only people that is the situation only can understand how they feel at that time… sometimes, a suddent money will make people nervous and just stuck! That is why for some people, after they hit the first price lotery, they just come to their original ‘point’ financially… based on some book that I read, this is because of the mentality of each person… some can bear the heavy burden of having sudden windfall, but some may not.
Here is the news. It is from yahoo.
Cash found in Ohio house’s walls becomes nightmare
CLEVELAND – A contractor who found $182,000 in Depression-era currency hidden in a bathroom wall has ended up with only a few thousand dollars, but he feels some vindication.
The windfall discovery amounted to little more than grief for contractor Bob Kitts, who couldn’t agree on how to split the money with homeowner Amanda Reece.
It didn’t help Reece much, either. She testified in a deposition that she was considering bankruptcy and that a bank recently foreclosed on one of her properties.
And 21 descendants of Patrick Dunne — the wealthy businessman who stashed the money that was minted in a time of bank collapses and joblessness — will each get a mere fraction of the find.
“If these two individuals had sat down and resolved their disputes and divided the money, the heirs would have had no knowledge of it,” said attorney Gid Marcinkevicius, who represents the Dunne estate. “Because they were not able to sit down and divide it in a rational way, they both lost.”
Kitts was tearing the bathroom walls out of an 83-year-old home near Lake Erie in 2006 when he discovered two green metal lockboxes suspended inside a wall below the medicine chest, hanging from a wire. Inside were white envelopes with the return address for “P. Dunne News Agency.”