Doty v. Village of Port Jervis

The defendant demurs to the complaint upon the ground that it does not state facts constituting a cause of ac*314tion. It alleges that the plaintiff’s decedent, • her' husband, was killed in October, 1895, at the village of Port Jervis by one Edward G. Loreaux, then .a special police officer of the village; that he was appointed such officer by the president of the village.; that he was an incompetent, inefficient, negligent land dangerous man, utterly unfit and incompetent to fulfill the) duties of the office occupied by him; that the defendant had actual notice ,of his unfit and dangerous…