Souder v. Philadelphia

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

The grand jury of the County of Philadelphia made a presentment in which they set forth that certain police officials of the City of Philadelphia (among them, the plaintiff Frank Souder, a captain of police), in an investigation being conducted by that body, had been unable to explain satisfactorily the source of their large personal estates, that the persons they named “have or have had during the past few years vast amounts of money,” that their estates as reflected by their bank accounts had increased in size with amazing rapidity by the repeated accumulation…