SMITH v. PURVIS

Civ. 4689-X.

474 So.2d 1131 (1985)

Danny Lee SMITH and Jeffrey Allen Smith v. Sheriff Tom PURVIS.

Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama.

July 10, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Gillion of Brown, Hudgens, Richardson, P.C., Mobile, for appellant.

William B. Jackson II of Hess, Atchison & Horne, Mobile, for appellee.


BRADLEY, Judge.

This is a case concerning the rights of a finder of lost or abandoned property.

In June 1983 Danny Lee Smith and his brother, Jeffrey Allen Smith, took possession of a sixteen-foot fiberglass boat which they found lying beside the roadway in Mobile County. Seeing two sheriff's deputies, they stopped them to discuss the boat. After calling in the situation and receiving instructions, the deputies, over the Smiths' objections, impounded the boat...

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