. The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science. is calledin question. In Johnson v. District of Colum-bia, United States Supreme Court, Apiil 19,1886, the Supreme Court defines the distinctionbetween the judicial and administrative dutiesof municipal corporations with reference to their authorities, in adopting a general plan of drain-age, and determining when and where sewersshall be built, of what size and at what level,are of a quasi judicial nature, involving the ex-ercise of deliberate judgment and large dis-certion, and depending upon consid
. The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science. is calledin question. In Johnson v. District of Colum-bia, United States Supreme Court, Apiil 19,1886, the Supreme Court defines the distinctionbetween the judicial and administrative dutiesof municipal corporations with reference to their authorities, in adopting a general plan of drain-age, and determining when and where sewersshall be built, of what size and at what level,are of a quasi judicial nature, involving the ex-ercise of deliberate judgment and large dis-certion, and depending upon considerations af-fecting the public health and general conven-ience throughout an extensive territory; and theexercise of such judgment and discretion in the the sewer, may be sued by a person whose prop-erty is thereby injured. The principal decisionsupon the subject are collected in the briefs ofcounsel, and generally, if not uniformly, sup-port these propositions. The Detroit electric tower company of De-troit, Mich., has been incorporated. The business of the company is the manufacture and. RANDOLPH APARTMENT HOUSE, NEW YORK CITY.—FITTED WITH MYERSDEPOTS SPECIALTIES, 54 BEEKMAN ST., NEW YORK. liability for damages to individuals. The action selection and adoption of the general plan orwas brought against a municipality to recover system of drainage is not subject to revision bydamages for injuries done by an overflow from a a court or jury, in a private action for not suf-sewer, and the question was, whether evidence ficiently draining a particular lot«of land. But the construction and repair of sewers, accordingto the general plan so adopted, are simply min-isterial duties, and for any negligence in so con-structing a sewer, or keeping it in repair, themunicipality which has constructed and owns could be admitted to show that the plan uponwhich the sewer had been constructed by theauthorities had not been judiciously selected. Itwas held that it was not admissable. Gray: J.,
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