Episode # 138 New evidence that "Humpty-Dumpty" never falls!

Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle, and is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg, though he is not explicitly described as such. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty 

Thomas Haslem v. William A. Lockwood, Connecticut, (1871) is an important United States case in property, tort, conversion, trover and nuisance law.

The plaintiff directed his servants to rake abandoned horse manure into heaps that had accumulated in a public street, intending to carry it away the next day. Before he could do so, the defendant, who had no knowledge of the plaintiff's actions, found the heaps and hauled them off to his own land. The plaintiff sued the defendant in trover demanding payment for the price of the manure. The trial court held for the defendant, stating he owed nothing to the plaintiff. The plaintiff appealed and the Appellate Court of Connecticut held for the plaintiff, remanding the case for a new trial.

The manure originally belonged to the owners of the horses that dropped it. But when the owners abandoned it on the road, it became the property of the man who was first to claim it. The Court found that the best owner after the act of abandonment was the borough of Stamford, Connecticut where the manure was found. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haslem_v._Lockwood

Abandon - "to give up with the intent of never again claiming a right or interest in" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abandon

Horse (geology) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_%28geology%29

Trojan Horse - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse

Manure - "material that fertilizes land" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manure

Human fertilization is the union of an egg and sperm, occurring primarily in the ampulla of the fallopian tube. The result of this union leads to the production of a fertilized egg called a zygote, initiating embryonic development. The process of fertilization involves a sperm fusing with an ovum. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_fertilization

Civil Rights Act 1866 

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=civil+rights+act+of+1866&atb=v311-1&ia=web

42 U.S. Code § 1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights 

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1983