McDonald v. Railway Express Agency, Inc.

1. Lost property is that with which possession has been casually and involuntarily parted, so that the mind has no impression, and can have no recourse to the event. Groover v. Tippins, 51 Ga. App. 47 (179 S. E. 634). The finder of lost property has a right to it as against the world, except against the true owner.

2. As to the property of another lost while in the custody of a common carrier or other fiduciary (as, for example, a bond dropped out of a safetjr-deposit box in the custody of the bank or other agency providing places for caring for valuables, or out of a parcel consigned for…