An action was brought against the corporation for the negligence of an inspector who, acting under the 1894 Act seized and detained sheep suspected of sheep-scab.
Held: The corporation was not liable. The inspector was performing a function imposed directly upon him by statute; it was a function that was, for him, and not the corporation, to perform.
Lord Alverstone CJ
[1905] 2 KB 838
Diseases of Animals Act 1894
England and Wales
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