MUNICIPAL TORT LIABILITY
Smith, Allan F.
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- 1974Merrill v. City of Manchester N.H.
- 1973Ayala v. Philadelphia Board of Public Education Pa.
- 1957Wendler v. City of Great Bend Kan.
- 1952Thomas v. Broadlands Community Consolidated School District No. 201 Ill. App. Ct.
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Abstract
Municipal government in the United States is big business. In 1946, the 397 cities having a population of 25,000 or more spent a total of nearly 3 billion dollars for general governmental expenditures. In 1947 the total increased by 17 per cent to $3,477,000,000. Of that amount, 2½ billion were actual operational expenses for such activities as public safety, public health, sanitation, hospitals, local street and highway maintenance, and schools.
Since the figures do not include the amounts expended in connection with municipal water works or municipal street railways, they lend weight to the assertion that our municipal governments are today engaged in a variety of activities which, in the aggregate, are of considerable magnitude.