F picks up a diamond on the floor on k's shop. He hands it over to K to keep it till true owner is found out. No one appears to claim it for quite some weeks in spite of the wide advertisement in the newspapers. F claims the diamond from K Who refuses to return. Comment.
A person, who finds goods to another and takes them into his custody, is subject to the same responsibilities as a bailee. He is bound to take as much care of the goods as a man of ordinary prudence would, under similar circumstances, take of his own goods of the same bulk, quality and value. If he does not, he will be guilty of wrongful conversion of the property. Till the owner is found out, the property in goods will vest in the finder and he can retain the goods as his own against the whole world. K is bound to return the diamond to F who is entitled to retain the diamond against the whole world except the true owner.
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