McDowell v. United States

*641In an opinion per curiam, the court decided that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover:

OPINION

The plaintiff in October 1944 burglarized the United States Post Office at Aurora, Indiana. In the commission of the crime there was breakage of Government property, the repair of which cost $112.71. Some 4,800 money order forms and $172.58 in cash were stolen. The plaintiff was arrested in November 1944, and Federal officers took $273 in cash from him, later returning $5.00 to him. It does not appear that the money taken from him included any of the proceeds of the burglary. The plaintiff was…