Hoff v. City of Mesa

JOHNSON, Justice.

This is an appeal by the personal representative of Paul Hoff, deceased, from an order granting summary judgment in favor of the City of Mesa, a municipal corporation and its duly elected Councilmen, who will be hereinafter designated as defendants.

The facts pertinent to this appeal are virtually undisputed. The City of Mesa, through its Council employed Joe True as a policeman without requiring from him a bond indemnifying any person injured or aggrieved by his wrongful act. That on the 16th day of April, 1956, Joe True, while acting in his official capacity and in the…