Replevin for a cow
So I've been burried deep in the evil land of the never-ending memo. To give you an idea, yesterday was an average Wednesday and a 10 page outline became 20 pages of... Well, I hope draft enough to get me through to the final being due next week. We shall see.
But in the midst of this exhaustion, we are assigned a case. This case is called Sherwood v. Walker and we are all groaning because it has been cited and discussed thoroughly in other cases that we have read. The contracts prof even went out of his way to give it to us online so that we would read it. I should thank him. If only for th first line:
Replevin for a cow.
Who cares what it means? Who knows what it means? It's just an amazing opening line! It turns out that is WHY he assigned it, because it provided him with the exact same response. Then he named his band Replevin for a Cow (RFC)and significantly increased my opinion of him. There is epic poetry available here: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/rubinfeldd/LS145/roseofaberlone.htm
I hope that it can be as funny to you as it was to me. The case is about a cow named Rose the Second of Aberlone (I know, right?) which was thought to be barren and so was sold for beef, but then they found out she was with calf so wouldn't sell her, and the buyer seemed.... unusually attached to having THAT cow.
So now I'm 26, a little old maybe, but I'm in law school, I have an apartment, a full and happy life, and I think I'm learning how to ride along that razor's edge of sanity with a well-balanced unicycle pretty well. Hopefully I shall be forgiven for not posting yesterday. I spent literally the whole day writing memo.
But in the midst of this exhaustion, we are assigned a case. This case is called Sherwood v. Walker and we are all groaning because it has been cited and discussed thoroughly in other cases that we have read. The contracts prof even went out of his way to give it to us online so that we would read it. I should thank him. If only for th first line:
Replevin for a cow.
Who cares what it means? Who knows what it means? It's just an amazing opening line! It turns out that is WHY he assigned it, because it provided him with the exact same response. Then he named his band Replevin for a Cow (RFC)and significantly increased my opinion of him. There is epic poetry available here: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/rubinfeldd/LS145/roseofaberlone.htm
I hope that it can be as funny to you as it was to me. The case is about a cow named Rose the Second of Aberlone (I know, right?) which was thought to be barren and so was sold for beef, but then they found out she was with calf so wouldn't sell her, and the buyer seemed.... unusually attached to having THAT cow.
So now I'm 26, a little old maybe, but I'm in law school, I have an apartment, a full and happy life, and I think I'm learning how to ride along that razor's edge of sanity with a well-balanced unicycle pretty well. Hopefully I shall be forgiven for not posting yesterday. I spent literally the whole day writing memo.