Wood v. Floyd County

1. Where a county owns a tract of land and quantities of stone and operates a quarry thereon, and has been engaged there for several years in crushing rock to be used in making and building the public highways of the county, it will be held to have been exercising governmental functions, and no liability will attach to the non-performance or improper performance of the duties of the officers, agents, or servants of the county in respect to these governmental functions. It would not affect the public character of the officers, agents, or servants of the county, that a purely incidental profit…