 Police officers can in no sense be regarded as agents or " servants of the city. Their duties are of a public nature. " Their appointment is devolved on cities and towns by the " legislature, as a convenient mode of exercising a function of " government...  Rapports Judiciaires de Québec - Page 3991888Full view - About this book
 | Justin Winsor - Boston (Mass.) - 1882 - 790 pages
...172), concerns the liability of a city for injurious acts of its police officers. Says the court: — by the legislature as a convenient mode of exercising...them liable for their unlawful or negligent acts. The . . . powers and duties with which police officers and constables are entrusted are derived from the... | |
 | Justin Winsor - Boston (Mass.) - 1881 - 778 pages
...172), concerns the liability of a city for injurious acts of its police officers. Says the court: — by the legislature as a convenient mode of exercising...them liable for their unlawful or negligent acts. The . . . powers and duties with which police officers and constables are entrusted are derived from the... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1036 pages
...the state, rather than of the city, and hence it is not responsible for his acts. "Police-officers can in no sense be regarded as agents or servants...cities and towns by the legislature as a convenient moile of exercising a function of government; but this does not render them liable for their unlawful... | |
 | Frank Johnson Goodnow - Municipal government - 1895 - 326 pages
...court held the municipality not liable for the damages which were caused by the policemen, and said, " Police officers can in no sense be regarded as agents...this does not render them liable for their unlawful and negligent acts. The detention and arrest of offenders, the preservation of the public peace, the... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1030 pages
...Doc. 721, BigeloiV, 0. J., says: "Police officers can in DO sense be regarded as servants or agents of the city. Their duties are of a public nature. Their appointment is devolved upon cities and towns by the legislature as a convenient mode 5a of exercising a function of government,... | |
 | Michel Mathieu - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 626 pages
...upon substantial law and may be fully adopted here. The Chief Justice, in giving judgment, said : " Police officers can in no sense be regarded as agents...Legislature as a convenient mode of exercising a function uf government, but this does not render them liable for their unlawful or negligent acts. The detection... | |
 | John Archibald Fairlie - Cities and towns - 1901 - 472 pages
...discharge of their duties. 1 This rule is well stated in the case of Buttrick v. the City of Lowell: — Police officers can in no sense be regarded as agents...this does not render them liable for their unlawful and negligent acts. The detention and arrest of offenders, the preservation of the public peace, the... | |
 | John Archibald Fairlie - Cities and towns - 1901 - 480 pages
...discharge of their duties. 1 This rule is well stated in the case of Buttrick v. the City of Lowell: — Police officers can in no sense be regarded as agents...this does not render them liable for their unlawful and negligent acts. The detention and arrest of offenders, the preservation of the public peace, the... | |
 | Thomas Johnson Michie - Municipal corporations - 1901 - 844 pages
...Allen, 172, as follows: "Police officers can in no sense be regarded as the Taber v. City of New Bedford agents or servants of the city. Their duties are of...them liable for their unlawful or negligent acts.'' In Easterly v. Town of Irwin, 99 Iowa, 694, 68 NW 919, the substance of the above language is used,... | |
 | Criminal law - 1903 - 638 pages
...the greatest respect, says:— ''Police officers can in no respect be regarded as agents or officers of the city. Their duties are of a public nature. Their appointment is devolved on cities and town by the legislature as a convenient mode of exercising a function of government, but this does... | |
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