BIGFORD v. TAYLOR

No. 87-2334.

834 F.2d 1213 (1988)

Willie BIGFORD, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Joe Max TAYLOR, Individually and as Sheriff of Galveston County, Texas, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 5, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beatrice Mladenka-Fowler, Nelson, Locke & Fowler, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.

Scott Lyford, Galveston County Legal Dept., Galveston, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, GEE and RUBIN, Circuit Judges.


ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

Galveston County sheriff's police towed and kept a young man's battered pickup truck on the suspicion that it might once have been stolen because certain identification stickers were missing or appeared to have been altered. Although the police soon decided that the truck had not been stolen, and the owner repeatedly sought return of his truck, the county justice of the peace did not order that it be returned until almost five months...

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