Franklin v. City of Seattle

Citations

• 112 Wash. 671
• 192 P. 1015
• 12 A.L.R. 247
• 1920 Wash. LEXIS 791

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations (407)—Governmental Functions — Torts op Officers-—-Health Quarantine—Liability. A city is not liable for the fraudulent acts of its police officers and board of health in a wrongful and malicious conspiracy to charge and imprison a person as having an infectious disease, since it is but performing a governmental function in enforcing quarantine regulations in the interest of public health.</p>