.Appeal.-Libel.-Director's liability for co-director's tort.
Case summary
Where a circular had been issued by W & Co., of which firm B was a director and a large shareholder, advertising a. revived publication entitled De Express Boerenvriend, and F Co., who had for some years published De Boerenvriend, issued a circular referring to B, which contained the innuendo that he and his co-director had acted dishonourably, and the magistrate had found that the statements contained in F & Co.'s circular were true and had been published for the. public benefit, Held, on appeal, that the director of a company is liable in tort for the act of his oodirector done in the ordinary course of business.
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