Boshell v. Jasper Police Department

Lewis E. Boshell sued Penn Woods, as mayor of Jasper, and the Jasper Police Department, alleging that the defendants had wrongfully seized and withheld a telephone. He alleged that the telephone was rented from American Telephone and Telegraph Company; he sought to recover $11.16 that he says he incurred as rental charges to AT & T during the time of the allegedly wrongful withholding of the tele*899phone (the telephone apparently was returned shortly after the complaint was filed) and to recover $5,000,000 in punitive damages. The trial court dismissed his complaint, and he appeals.

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