Noble v. City of Palo Alto

PARKER, J., pro tem.

This is an action brought to determine the ownership of certain personal property, to wit, cash in the sum of $308. Plaintiff and defendant, City of Palo Alto, by appropriate pleading set up their respective claims to the said amount, and after trial before the court judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff.

From this judgment defendant appeals.

The record discloses that at all times involved herein plaintiff was chief of police of the City of Palo Alto, and the money in dispute here is money derived from the sale of certain bicycles admitted to have been found on the…