The district court in Uppsala ruled just before Christmas that the stone should go to Anders Zetterqvist and Andreas Forsberg, who found it at Refvelsta estate.
The landowner Johan Benzelstierna von Engeström was of a different opinion and appealed.
The case is unique in Swedish legal history and the legislation did not provide any clear guidance in advance. You may not take stones from other people’s land, according to the criminal code, but for ancient finds there is special legislation. Meteorites are not mentioned at all.
The stone went to the men because the district court considered it to be an object that accidentally ended up on Benzelstierna von Engeström’s land, and thus movable property. Benzelstierna von Engeström, on the other hand, considers the stone to be immovable property and can now pursue its case in the Court of Appeal.