Morin v. People's Wet Wash Laundry Co.

The plaintiff offered evidence that the defendant’s manager had instructed its drivers to use forcible methods to the extent of criminal conduct in competing with other laundries to obtain business. The evidence was rightly excluded. It did not appear that the defendant expressly authorized or ratified such instructions so as to make them its own. And the manager had no implied authority to give directions, or even permission, for conduct that anyone would know was wrongful. Favor v. Philbrick, 7 N. H. 326, 339, 340. “No right can be founded upon a transaction which involves a violation of…