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In article <Bslaf.1443$5R2.868@trnddc08>, bigd@verizon.net (me) wrote:
> I had a tentative deal to sell a set of drawings for a Dyke
> Delta to anther gentleman.
>
> These drawings were purchased by my father from John Dyke
> shortly before my father suddenly died. My father got no
> further than the purchase of the drawings, he never had time
> to even clean out a space in his shop to begin work.
>
> I now have the drawings and considered them to be something
> that I could honestly sell because they had never been used.
> They were only taken out of the mailing tube one time.
>
> The prospective buyer was informed by Mr. Dyke that there
> would be no builder support because the airplane had not
> been started. If there was an unfinished project being
> sold, Mr Dyke would help the new buyer finish it. But he
> has washed his hands of this set of drawings because when my
> father died before he could start, he rendering the drawings
> and the rights to build from them void.
>
> From my vantage point this looks like simple greed on the
> part of Mr. Dyke for the sale of another set of drawings.
>
> Am I missing something? Has anybody actually seen this
> notion applied as a legal precedent in the past?
If this narrative constitutes the totality of the relevant facts of the
situation, this disinterested third party would conclude that Mr. Dyke
is behaving in an entirely legal but reprehensibly small way.
When does human life begin? When does an airplane begin? If your father
took the plans out of the tube, perused them, and spent five minutes
beginning to clear out his shop, I say you have an "unfinished project."
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Re: John Dyke
