Touchard v. Touchard

Citations

• 5 Cal. 306
• 1855 Cal. LEXIS 120

Syllabus

<p>Although a Municipal Corporation has delegated to it certain powers of government! it is only in reference to those delegated powers that it will be regarded as a government.</p> <p>In reference to all its oilier transactions, such as affect its ownership of property in buying, selling or granting, and in reference to all matters of contract, it must be looked upon and treated as a private person, and its contracts construed in the same manner, and with like effect as those of natural persons.</p>