 ... that a duty, which is imposed upon an incorporated city, not by the terms of its charter, nor for the profit of the corporation, pecuniarily or otherwise, but upon the city as the representative and agent of the public, and for the public benefit,...  The State Reports, New South Wales - Page 100by New South Wales. Supreme Court - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 790 pages
...duty which is imposed upon an incorporated city, not by the terms of its charter, nor for the profit of the corporation, pecuniarily or otherwise, but...general law applicable to all cities and towns in the common wealth, and a breach of which in the case of a town would give no right of private action, is... | |
 | Law - 1892 - 554 pages
...incorporated city, not by the terms of its charter, nor for the benefit of the corporation, pecuniary or otherwise, but upon the city as the representative...of the public, and for the public benefit, and by general law applicable to all cities and towns in the Commonwealth, is a duty owing to the public alone,... | |
 | Law - 1880 - 554 pages
...to construct paths over it or to keep such paths in repair, it is a corporate duty imposed upon it as the representative and agent of the public and for the public benefit. For a breach of such a duty, a private action cannot be maintained against a town or city, unless such... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 864 pages
...duty, which is imposed upon an incorporated city, not by the terms of its charter, nor for the profit of the corporation, pecuniarily or otherwise, but...owing to the public alone, and a breach thereof by a city, as by a town, is to be redressed by prosecution in behalf of the public, and will not support... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 696 pages
...of its charter, nor for the profit of the corporation, pecuniarily or otherwise, but upon the lity as the representative and agent of the public, and...owing to the public alone, and a breach thereof by a city, as by a town, is to be redressed by prosecution in behalf of the public, *nd will not support... | |
 | Law - 1880 - 556 pages
...to construct paths over it or to keep such paths in repair, it is a corporate duty imposed upon it as the representative and agent of the public and for the public benefit. For a breach of such a duty, a private action cannot be maintained against a town or city, unless such... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 708 pages
...construct paths c ver it, or to keep such paths in repair, it is a corporate duty, imposed upon it as the representative and agent of the public and for the public benefit. For a breach of such a duty, a private action cannot be maintained against a town or city, unless such... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 896 pages
...to construct paths over it or to keep such paths in repair, it bi a corporate duty imposed upon it as the representative and agent of the public and for the public benefit. For a breach of such a duty, a private action cannot be riiLitained against atown or city, unless such... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 1166 pages
...incorporated city, not by the terms of its charter, nor for the profit of the corporation, v.21p.no.4— 18 pecuniarily or otherwise, but upon the city as the...owing to the public alone, and a breach thereof by a city, as by a town, is to be redressed by prosecutions in behalf of the public, and will not support... | |
 | Burton Willis Potter - Highway law - 1887 - 180 pages
...paths over public commons, or to keep such paths in repair, it is a corporate duty, imposed upon it as the representative and agent of the public and for the public benefit. For a breach of such a duty a private action • cannot be maintained against a town or city, unless... | |
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