Case Name: Evelyn WILFORD, Appellant, v. CITY OF JACKSONVILLE BEACH, a Municipal Corporation, Appellee
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1955-04-13
Citations: 79 So. 2d 516
Docket Number: 
Parties: Evelyn WILFORD, Appellant, v. CITY OF JACKSONVILLE BEACH, a Municipal Corporation, Appellee.
Judges: MATHEWS, C. J., DREW, J., and PARKS, Associate Justice, concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 79
Pages: 516–516

Head Matter:
Evelyn WILFORD, Appellant, v. CITY OF JACKSONVILLE BEACH, a Municipal Corporation, Appellee.
Supreme Court of Florida. Special Division B.
April 13, 1955.
John O. Jackson and Richard B. Austin, Jacksonville, for appellant.
Stephen Stratford and Edward M. Booth, Jacksonville, for appellee.

Opinion:
ROBERTS, Justice.
This is an appeal from a summary judgment in favor of the city, appellee here and defendant below, in a suit filed by the plaintiff-appellant to recover for injuries allegedly sustained by her as the result of the tortious acts of the city's employees, who were police officers.
It is admitted that the police officers were acting in the performance of their duties as such and thus in the performance of a governmental function of the city. The acts by them which were alleged to be tortious need not be related, as we are of the opinion that, under the settled law of this court, no recovery may be had by the plaintiff. "Whatever the law may be elsewhere, it has long been established in this jurisdiction that a municipal corporation is not liable for the tortious acts of its police officers committed as incident to the exercise of a purely governmental function." City of Miami v. Bethel, Fla., 1953, 65 So.2d 34. See also Britt v. City of Ocala, Fla., 1953, 65 So.2d 753; and Williams v. City of Green Cove Springs, Fla., 1953, 65 So. 2d 56.
No reversible error having been made to appear, the judgment appealed from should be and it is hereby
Affirmed.
MATHEWS, C. J., DREW, J., and PARKS, Associate Justice, concur.