Court Opinion

ID: 9809356
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 21:09:48.857554+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:27:14.631009
License: Public Domain

Clark, C. J.,
concurs in this opinion. I understand this opinion and Harrington v. Greenville, 159 N. C., 632, to affirm the nonliability of a municipality in" exorcising the governmental function of maintaining a fire department, but that these eases do not apply where a city or town is maintaining a system of municipal water-works. In such ease, the liability of the municipality to employees, to the public, to patrons and to any others is the same as a privately owned water company, for the reason that the municipality is then operating a business enterprise, and not governmentally.