Municipal ‘Corporations — Personal Injuries — Negligence op Servants—Liability.—A municipal corporation, in the absence of a statute imposing the liability, is not liable for personal injuries due to the negligence of the corporation’s officers and employees, unless the negligence was in the matter of the exercise of functions private and proprietary in their nature as distinguished from functions purely governmental in nature.

Id.—Maintenance of Summer Camp for City Children — Governmental Function—Injuries to Inmate—Negligence of Servants —Nonliability of City.—A municipal corporation in conducting under authorization of certain provisions of its charter a summer camp outside the corporation’s limits, for the purpose of giving the children of the city a vacation at certain prescribed charges to be paid by them to the city, is engaged purely in the exercise of its governmental function of maintaining the health of the children of 'the city, and is not liable for injuries accruing to a minor by reason of the negligence of its servants in the matter of caring for such minor after he had accidentally been injured while an inmate of such camp.

Id.—Location of Summer Camp—Charge for Privileges—Nature of Function not Changed.—There is no material difference between a children’s playground established and maintained by the city within the city limits and a summer camp for the children of the city established without such limits, in so far as the liability of the city for the negligent acts of its servants is concerned, nor does the fact that a small charge is made for the privileges of the camp change the situation.

Id.—Maintenance of Children’s playgrounds—Governmental Function.—Children’s playgrounds and recreation centers established and maintained by a city for the general use of the children of the city, where so conducted as to partake in no degree of the nature of a private business enterprise, do not substantially differ from a public park in so far as the question of liability of the city for personal injuries due to the negligence of its servants are concerned, since, like such parks, they are referable solely to the duty of maintaining the public health, and have nothing of the nature of an ordinary business enterprise. /

Id.—City of Los Angeles—Maintenance of Summer Camp for Children—Private Capacity—Charter.—The city of Los Angeles is not authorized by it's charter to. maintain a summer camp for the children of the city in any proprietary or private capacity.