Faniel v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a plaintiff had not shown false imprisonment where the plaintiff did not “object” or “manifest a desire to leave”
• “Submission to the mere verbal direction of another, unaccompanied by force or threats of any character does not constitute false imprisonment.”
• “Of course, if the defendant goes beyond the implied consent, and does a substantially different act, he will be liable. . . . Whether the assent given was broad enough to cover the invasion inflicted is a question of fact to be determined by the jury in doubtful cases.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).