Oliver v. City of Worcester

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts · Decided 1869-10-15

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Gray, J. The distinction is well established between the responsibilities of towns and cities for acts done in their public capacity, in the discharge of duties imposed upon them by the legislature for the public benefit, and for acts done in what may be called their private character, in the management of property or rights voluntarily held by them for their own immediate profit or advantage as a corporation, although inuring, o…

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