Goldsmith v. Roberts

OPINION

CONNER, Judge.

(Filed with concurrence of participating judges)

This is an appeal by the Tennessee Department of Safety from an adverse ruling of the chancellor in a forfeiture case.

On September 22, 1979, Officer Charles Park of the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department seized a vehicle belonging to the plaintiff-appellee, Meyer M. Goldsmith, 1 and $873.00 found on his person pursuant to the Drug Control Act, T.C.A. § 52-1443. The taking resulted from an investigation by Officer Park of an automobile accident at the intersection of West End and Fairfax Avenues in which Goldsmith was…