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Local Government Law -- 1954 Tennessee Survey, Clyde L. Ball
Local Government Law -- 1954 Tennessee Survey, Clyde L. Ball
Vanderbilt Law Review
Tort Liability: The case of Bricker v. Sims' was one of four cases tried together involving the tort liability of a city and its officers. The Board of Aldermen of the City of Martin adopted a curfew ordinance prohibiting any person from being on a public street or other public place after 11:00 o'clock at night. Plaintiff, while conducting himself in an otherwise lawful manner, was arrested on the public streets of Martin after the curfew hour; he was jailed and the next day was convicted and fined in the city court. Upon appeal to the circuit court the case …
Claims Against States, Leslie L. Anderson
Claims Against States, Leslie L. Anderson
Vanderbilt Law Review
In 1924, commencing a leading series of articles on "Government Liability in Tort," Professor Edward M. Borchard referred to what he called the "unexampled expansion of the police power in the United States." He wrote of the increasing risks which individuals in this country are left to bear from "defective, negligent, perverse or erroneous administration" of the functions of government. If those functions had increased at a considerable rate at the time of his article, what would one say of their extent today? Even the leaders of the New Deal discerned the risks to which increased governmental activity subjected people, …