City of Birmingham v. Brock

GARDNER, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff was convicted in the Recorder's Court of the City of Birmingham and sentenced to hard labor, as authorized by the statute. Title 62, § 654, Code 1940. In execution of the hard labor sentence he was required to work on a private road of the city leading to its industrial water plant. This work was of a corporate character and this Court is now committed to the proposition that the municipality is liable to the convict for wrongful or negligent conduct of its agent in the performance of such character of work. That question has been here sharply debated and may…