Legal Opinion
Willie Bigford, Jr. v. Joe Max Taylor, Individually and as Sheriff of Galveston County, Texas
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 5, 1988No. 87-2334PublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
Galveston County sheriffs police towed and kept a young man’s battered pickup truck on the suspicion that it might once have been stolen because certain identification stickers were missing or appeared to have been altered. Although the police soon decided that the truck had not been stolen, and the owner repeatedly sought return of his truck, the county justice of the peace did not order that it be returned until almost five months later. By that time, the owner had lost his job because he could not drive to work, and the storage fees amounted to almost the…
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