Pritchard v. Keefer

Citations

• 53 Ill. 117

Syllabus

<p>Pbincipal and agent—Tioic far the former is UaMe for the unauthorized acts of the latter. Where a city ordinance authorized the Mayor, by proclamation, to order all persons within the city limits to confine or securely muzzle their dogs, and the city marshal, to carry into effect the provisions of the ordinance, under the Mayor’s proclamation, employed an agent directing him to destroy all dogs found running at large and not properly muzzled : Held, the marshal would not be liable for the wanton, willful or negligent act of such agent in killing a dog not within the terms of the ordinance and proclamation.</p>