Burroughs Adding Machine Co. v. Fryar

Defendant in error, Fryar, was a police officer in the city of Chattanooga. While making his rounds after *613business hours he noticed that the front door of the store of plaintiff in error was open. The officer went into the house to see if any one was there and, finding no one, concluded that the door had been left open by inadvertence. He returned to the front and, standing in a vestibule leading from the sidewalk into the storehouse, he slammed the door. The door fastened with a spring lock, and the jar occasioned by shutting it caused a screen, covering the transom to fall from its place…