Hodges v. City of Charlotte

Judicial candor compels me to register a dissent from the views of my brothers. Municipal immunity from responsibility for the negligent acts of its employees is a doctrine which should ever remain carefully circumscribed, as it constitutes an exception to the general rule that the master is liable for the damage done by the servant. When the servant of a citizen or a private corporation, negligently kills or injures, the employer is answerable in damages. What I now say is not urged in the interest of removing long established immunity; such questions of policy are for the legislative, not…