People v. Safe-Way Coal Co.

Judgment of conviction of the Court of Special Sessions of the City of New York, Borough of Brooklyn, reversed on the law, information dismissed and fine remitted- The record contains ample evidence warranting a trier of the fact in holding that the defendant corporation violated section 2411 of the Penal Law, except for the fact that the trial court exculpated the individuals by reason of whose acts alone the corporation could be convicted. The corporation could only be held to sanction the acts of its employees. If those acts were not wrongful, the corporation’s act in sanctioning them…