...Commonwealth, that no private action, unless authorized by express statute, can be maintained against a city for the neglect of a public duty imposed upon...which the corporation receives no profit or advantage. But, it having been suggested at the argument that the recent opinions of the Supreme Court of the...

...the ground that no private action, unless authorized by express statute, can be maintained against a city for the neglect of a public duty imposed upon...which the corporation receives no profit or advantage. The question has most commonly arisen in actions for defects in highways and bridges by reason of which...

...expressly authorized by statute, can be maintained against a city MUNICIPAL CORPORATION — Continued. for the neglect of a public duty imposed upon it by law for the benefit oJ the public, and from the performance of which the corporation receives no profit or advantage. HiUv....

...even If the statute imposed the duty to provide a suitable lockup upon the town, the duty being one for the benefit of the public, and from the performance of which the town receives no corporate benefit or advantage, the plaintiff's action, In the absence of a statute...

...for the performance of a duty which under the authority of the statute the city of Boston has assumed for the benefit of the public, and from the performance of which no profit or advantage is derived either by the trustees or the city. The trustees as a corporation...

...the performance of a duty which, under the authority of the statute, the city of Boston has assumed for the benefit of the public, and from the performance of which no profit or advantage is received either by the trustees or the city. The trustees are no more liable...

...949-951, 953-955. No private action, in the absence of a statute giving it, can be maintained against a city for the neglect of a public duty imposed upon...which the corporation receives no profit or advantage: Hill v. Boston, 122 Mass. 344; 23 Am. Rep. 332, and cases cited; 2 Dillon on Municipal Corporations,...

...or city for the neglect of a public duty imposed upon it as the agent of the public, by general laws for the benefit of the public, and from the performance of which the corporation receives no profit or special advantage. Whether the result would have been different if the duty in question had been imposed...

...or city for the neglect of a public duty imposed upon it as the agent of the public, by general laws for the benefit of the public, and from the performance of which the corporation receives no profit or special advantage. Whether the result would have been different if the duty in question had been imposed...

...was held that no private action, unless authorized by express statute, could be maintained against & city for the neglect of a public duty imposed upon...benefit of the public, and from the performance of XXIX.] NEW BRUNSWICK REPORTS. v. OP MOMTON. which the corporation received no profit or advantage....