Gordon v. Hogan

Hogan instituted an action against Gordon of Spalding county, and Ragan of Carroll county, to recover damages for false imprisonment, alleging that Gordon unlawfully arrested and imprisoned him in the guard-house of the City of Griffin without reasonable or proper cause, and that such imprisonment was made at the instigation and procurement of defendant Ragan. The defendant Gordon justified the arrest of the plaintiff, on the ground that he was a police officer of the City of Griffin, and was empowered to make arrests for violations of the State law, and that there was, at the time of the…