Wright v. White

When the state confers judicial powers upon an individual, it confers them with full immunity from private suits, 2 Cooley on Torts (4th Ed.) 426, § 312. *144In the case of injury to an individual resulting from the exercise of such powers, it is said that the law will rather suffer a private mischief than a public inconvenience. Expounding the doctrine, Judge Cooley says {ibid.):

“In effect, the State says to the officer that these duties are confided to his judgment; that he is to exercise his judgment fully, freely, and without favor, and he may exercise it without fear; that the duties concern…