BUSA 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Official Code Of Georgia Annotated, Lawrence Taylor, Cub Foods
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Taylor et al. v. super discount market, inc. Who: appellant nick long & associates, nick long, darryl s. marmon. Appellees drew, eckl & farnham, g. randall moody, jennifer d. welch. What: lawrence taylor, ervan jacobs, and randy rayford brought suit against super discount. Market, inc. d/b/a cub foods seeking damages for false imprisonment. Appellants contend that ocga 51-7-60 does not apply to the facts of this case. Preclusion of recovery for detention or arrest of person suspected of shoplifting under certain circumstances. Appellants were not suspected of shoplifting but rather of passing counterfeit currency. Accordingly, ocga 51-7-60 does not provide a ground for the entry of summary judgment in favor of *157 super discount. The evidence reflects without dispute that devens did not instruct or urge mumford to arrest or detain appellants based upon her judgment that the bill was counterfeit.