Ocean Steamship Co. v. Williams
Supreme Court of Georgia
Pleadings. Damages. Malicious Arrest. False Imprisonment. Justification. Non-Suit. Evidence. Before Judge Harden. City Court of Savannah. May Term, 1.882. Williams brought an action against the Ocean Steamship Company of Savannah. His declaration contained two counts.
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Pleadings. Damages. Malicious Arrest. False Imprisonment. Justification. Non-Suit. Evidence. Before Judge Harden. City Court of Savannah. May Term, 1.882. Williams brought an action against the Ocean Steamship Company of Savannah. His declaration contained two counts. The first count was for false imprisonment, and alleged that on the nth day of January, 1882, the defendant, “with force and arms did unlawfully and wrongfully imprison and detain ” him “ in the police barracks, falsely pretending that he was guilty of the crime of larceny from the vessel; thát he was thereby deprived of liberty…
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
1. The first question to be considered in this case is, whether the amended plea of the defendant, filed and allowed during the progress of the trial, is a plea in justification of the plaintiff’s arrest and imprisonment, or is merely an amplification of the general issue of not guilty? *258Without this plea, could the defendant, under the general issue, have introduced the evidence by which it sought to justify the plaintiff’s arrest and imprisonment ? The only count in the declaration on which the trial was had alleged that the defendant, on the day named therein, wrongfully and…
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