An Ohio contractor is fighting with a homeowner over bundles of money he found in the walls of an 83-year-old house.
Home-improvement contractor Bob Kitts was ripping plaster from the walls of a bathroom in Cleveland when he found $182,000 wrapped in pre-World War II newspaper, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer reported Wednesday. Kitts said one currency appraiser valued the old bills at up to $500,000.
Kitts and his attorney are calling finders-keepers and have filed a lawsuit claiming he should get to keep the money, citing an old legal doctrine called "treasure trove"
The homeowner Amanda Reece said she would have accommodated Kitts but now feels she is facing a shakedown.
The money was traced back to the home's Depression-era owner, a businessman named Peter Dunne, who apparently died unmarried and childless, the newspaper said.
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