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· 3/4/1905

Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Bumpas

Citations

  • 85 S.W. 1046
  • 38 Tex. Civ. App. 410
  • 1905 Tex. App. LEXIS 490

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding “even if” the inventory search policy was constitutional, “the officers’ major deviation from that regime” also required reversal
  • finding inventory search invalid where the officer searched only for valuable items, but the official policy required an inventory of all items found in the vehicle
  • officers' failure to comply with official policy governing inventory searches rendered search unreasonable

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Judges: Stephens

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