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Title: Minor V. Pierce
Author : Supreme Court Of California In Bank
Release Date : January 18, 1943
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 63 KB

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SCHAUER, J. This case squarely presents the question as to whether public officials are liable in damages for injuries proximately resulting from their negligent failure to suspend or discharge known unfit and vicious subordinates, the officials having notice of the subordinates' unfitness and viciousness and having the power to suspend and remove them subject, however, to review by a civil service board. We conclude that the power to suspend or discharge the subordinates from duty and to start proceedings for their removal from civil service lists carries with it the correlative duty to vigilantly exercise the power, and that the negligent failure of such officials to act leaves them answerable in damages to persons who have suffered loss proximately resulting from such negligence.