Turney v. Rhodes
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the CourtStephens, J.
1. Any restraint, however slight, upon another’s liberty to come and go as he pleases constitutes an arrest; and where the restraint is unlawful and a contravention of the person’s right, the arrest is unlawful, and a right of action accrues to the person arrested against the person who has thus unlawfully arrested him and restrained him of his liberty.
2. Where a person who has gone into an office building, whether he is lawfully or illegally there, is ordered to enter an elevator in the building and to go to the basement of the building, and is carried, by the persons so ordering and the…
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- Godwin v. Gibson's Products Co. of Albany, Inc.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 1970
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