State, Use, Clark v. Ferling

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• superintendent of reformatory was a public officer and his duties in safely confining a juvenile inmate were public in character and quasi-judicial in nature, in that they involved the exercise of discretion
• “[T]he Cocking [v. Wade, 87 Md. 529, 40 A. 104 (1898) ] case was decided some sixty years ago, and, as the legislature has not seen fit to change the ruling made therein, we think it should be followed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).