 | Law - 1883 - 548 pages
...no special benefit or advantage in its corporate capacity, but which it is bound to see per formed in pursuance of a duty imposed by law for the general welfare of the inhabitants or of the community." And the court explains its former decision in the case of Little... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 552 pages
...no special benefit or advantage in its corporate capacity, but which it is bound to see per formed in pursuance of a duty imposed by law for the general welfare of the inhabitants or of the community." And the court explains its former decision In- the case of Little... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - 1871 - 68 pages
...in which the city or town has no particular interest, and from which it derives no special beneflt or advantage in its corporate capacity, but which...of a duty imposed by law for the general welfare of the inhabitants or of the community, such officer cannot be regarded as a servant or agent, for whose... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 866 pages
...last named, are that the corporation is engaged in the performance of a public service, in which it has no particular interest, and from which it derives...of a duty imposed by law for the general welfare of the inhabitants, or of the community; that the members of the fire department, although appointed by... | |
 | Law - 1879 - 552 pages
...from which it derives no special benefit or advantage in its corporate capacity, but which it is boand to see performed in pursuance of a duty imposed by law for the general welfare of the inhabitants or of the community, such officer cannot be regarded as a servant or agent, for whose... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 772 pages
...the corporation, as such, " has no particular interest, and from which it derives no special bsnetit or advantage in its corporate capacity, but which...of a duty imposed by law for the general welfare of the inhabitants or of the community." It was held in Hayes v. Oshkosh, 33 Wis., 314, that a municipal... | |
 | George Washington Field - Ultra vires - 1881 - 620 pages
...appoints an officer, in obedience to an act of the legislature, to perform a public service, in which it has no particular interest, and from which it derives...of a duty imposed by law for the general welfare of tho inhabitants of the community, such officer cannot be regarded as a servant or agent for whose negligence... | |
 | Henry Edward Wallace - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 640 pages
...present), Chief-Justice Bigelow said, " Where a municipal corporation elects or appoints an officer in obedience to an act of the legislature to perform...of a duty imposed by law for the general welfare of the inhabitants or of the community, such officer cannot be regarded as a servant or agent, for whose... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 686 pages
...or advantage in its corporate capacity, but which it is bound to sec Faulkner r. The City of Aurora. performed in pursuance of a duty imposed by law for the general welfare of the inhabitants or of the community.' " And the court explains its former decision in the case of Little... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1174 pages
...performance of a public service, In which it has no particular interest, and from which it derivos no special benefit or advantage in its corporate capacity;...of a duty imposed by law for the general welfare of the inhabitants or of the community. * * * They' [the members of the fire department] act rather as... | |
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The grounds of exemption from liability, as stated in the authorities last named, are that the corporation is engaged in the performance of a public service, in which it has no particular interest, and from which it derives no special benefit or advantage... 
