This case (against the sherrifs department) has a 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance of succeeding...but I gues there is a chance :)...
She was evicted! i.e. SHE WAS STEALING FROM THE LANDLORD. The landlord was being wronged.
Mammy would be so proud.
"But Scarlett O'Hara said she later returned the items."
And it's a good thing she did, too. I hear there are Yankees in the area coming to ransack Tara.
That is pretty much the law here. If you get evicted the landlord can put your stuff on the street. Maybe paying the rent is better than loosing your stuff.
Trailer parks are a racket to begin with.
You move into one largely because you can't afford to live elsewhere. So, in many cases, residents are young teens struggling to get by and elderly people, and people who work part time and full time jobs that don't pay too well.
The landlord can evict you at any time with notice. This means that you have to have a place to move your trailer if you own it. And you have to have between 800 - 2500 dollars to pay to move it banked. If you can't move it, you lose it. Or, they evict you from the property and continue charging you rent until you make arrangements. In either case, they have you over a barrel.
I lived in a trailer park for 9 years. The last mobile home I lived in before getting a good job and a real house, they're still trying to tax me on though I never owned it.
The park managers lied about my owning the place and the local assessor's office is now telling me that my word for when I left there doesn't count with them because they've already taken the word of the park owners on when I left there - (so that the park owners don't have to pay taxes on a home they never titled). There's a whole lot more of a story there - quite involved; but, upshot is, they are still trying to screw me on it.
Don't ever ever ever live in a trailer.
I had a client in a probate once who hired me to secure her children's inheritance. The parents were divorced and the dad died without a Will while the two kids were still minors. 100% of his belongings had been hauled to Mexico by his sister, who took two trips to do it. My client (who had not hired me then) protested, and was told by the local police department: (1) they knew Texas law and (2) it said that a single man's property went to his sister, not his children, and (3) she would be arrested if she either interfered with her former sister in law, or called the police about it again.
We were able to get the dead man's insurance and cash in the bank, but every item of personal property he owned is still in Mexico.