93 Ga. 797 | Ga. | 1894
The facts appear in the reporter’s statement. No question was made in the present case as to the validity of the ordinance therein mentioned, and our decision has been made upon the assumption that the municipal authorities of Augusta had the right to adopt this ordinance.
The doctrine that a city is not liable for the illegal and tortious acts of its police officers has been well Settled by repeated decisions of this court. Attaway v. Mayor and Aldermen of Cartersville, 68 Ga. 740, and cases there cited. The learned counsel for the plaintiff
Nor do we think there is any merit in the contention that the city, in effect, contracted with the plaintiff, in consideration of his purchasing from the city a collar for his dog, that it would protect the animal, while wearing the collar, fropn being killed. The ordinance was strictly a police regulation, covering an element of taxation, but it did not raise any contractual relations whatever between the city and the owners of dogs within the corporation.
The trial court was right in sustaining the demurrer to the declaration. Judgment affirmed.