LAMPRON, J.
Municipal corporations are regarded as having a dual character. "On the one hand they are subdivisions of the state, endowed with governmental powers and charged with governmental functions and responsibilities. On the other they are corporate bodies, capable of much the same acts as private corporations, and having the same special and local interests and relations, not shared by the state at large." Prosser, Torts 1066. It is now well settled in New...
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