Supreme Court of New Hampshire June 5, 1883 (Wakefield v. Newport)

Smith, J.

A town is not liable to a traveller injured by the negligence of a highway surveyor engaged in repairing a highway.

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Fardy

v.

Keene,

52 N. H. 370. He is not the agent of the town, but a public officer. Selectmen, though elected by towns, are public officers, whom towns cannot dismiss nor control in the discharge of their official duties.