Gurley v. Brown

OPINION

By the Court,

Badt, J.:

Are the individuals comprising the members of the city council of the city of Reno liable for damages as such individuals for failing to keep the temperature of the city j ail above the freezing point and for failing to appoint a keeper for the jail whose duty it would be to perform such function, when such failure results in the freezing of a prisoner’s feet, and when the individual members of the council are alleged to have known of the low temperature and to have acted “willfully, unlawfully, maliciously and negligently” in their said failure? Note that the…