Byrnes v. Richardson

The judges of the Court of Appeal, First circuit, have certified to us the following question:

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‘•This is a proceeding by rule to compel defendant, sheriff of the parish of Washington, to turn over to Byrnes and Phipps, plaintiffs in rule, the sum of $490.50. No objection, however, is made to the proceeding by rule.

“The admitted and conceded facts are that the sheriff of Washington parish raided a gambling establishment, owned and managed by the two plaintiffs, and seized and took possession of all the paraphernalia in said gambling establishment. Among the articles seized and taken by the…