Looney v. City of Sioux City
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Woodbury District Court. — Hon. George Jepson, Judge. This is an action wherein the plaintiff seeks to recover damages from the defendant city for negligence in failing to have one Matt Carr, a policeman of said city, under bond on the 1st day of May, 1912, when plaintiff was shot and injured by the said police officer. The demurrer to the petition was sustained. Plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtPreston, J.
The plaintiff states in his petition that while under arrest of one Matt Carr, a policeman of the defendant city, he was shot and severely injured by the said Carr, and that he recovered in the district court of Woodbury county a judgment against the said Carr of $4,000 for his injuries so sustained, and that he tried to enforce said judgment against said Carr, but that Carr had no property subject to execution, either at the time of the injury or any time thereafter, and that the city by practice and custom has fixed the amount of the bond required of its policemen at $2,000, and that the…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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