Seifert v. . City of Brooklyn

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1886-01-19

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Huger, Ch. J. The defendant in this case invokes the principle, exempting municipal corporations from liability for damages, occasioned through the exercise of judicial functions, by its officers, as a defense to the action. The cases on the subject are by no means harmonious and render it difficult to deduce from them any general rule, founded upon principle, which clearly marks th…

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