Miller v. Gillespie
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Wayne; Bridgman, J., presiding. Bill by Francis. J. Miller against John Gillespie, commissioner of the Metropolitan police force of Detroit, and others, for the surrender for cancellation of certain records in said police department. From a decree dismissing the bill, plaintiff appeals.
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Appeal from Wayne; Bridgman, J., presiding. Bill by Francis. J. Miller against John Gillespie, commissioner of the Metropolitan police force of Detroit, and others, for the surrender for cancellation of certain records in said police department. From a decree dismissing the bill, plaintiff appeals. Owing to what seems to have been either the ignorance or malice of the complaining witness, a warrant was issued by one of the police justices, of the city of Detroit for the arrest of the plaintiff, upon a charge of feloniously embezzling and converting to his own use an article of personal…
1Opinion of the CourtOstrander, J.
(after stating the facts). It may be assumed, I think, that two purposes are supposed to be served by making and by preserving in the police department a record such as the one in question here. There may be other reasons and purposes; but two, at least, appear to be fairly obvious ones. The responsible superior police officials are thereby furnished with definite and authoritative data of the activities of the department. This is, I assume, one purpose. The *426other is the preservation, for future reference and use, of the data so secured. The form of the record before us serves both purposes,…
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