Massachusetts Cotton Mills v. Hawkins

The Court of Appeals requested of this court answers to the following questions:

1. Is the tortious act of an arresting officer, committed in the execution of a criminal warrant, procured by the agent in charge of the corporation by which the officer is employed and paid, for an offense mot committed against the company, or on its premises, but on the highway adjacent thereto, necessarily to be taken as in the exercise of a governmental function, so as to exclude responsibility for such a tort on the part of both the company and its agent in charge, or either, where it appears that the duties…