Robinson v. Inches

On August 5, 1921, police officers of the Metropolitan Police department of Detroit entered plaintiff’s cigar store. It is- claimed that gambling was there in progress, and that a man standing at the *491counter was then in the act of making out a betting slip and. that he handed it with $2 to a clerk in the store. The officers interfered. The clerk took from his pocket, as the officers say, or from the cash register as he says, $426 and dropped it into a waste basket. The officers took such money. It is now held by defendants. Plaintiff has demanded a return of the money and has been refused.…