State v. White
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Ripley Circuit Court. — Hon. James L. Fori, Judge. (1) That a corporation is liable for an offense like the one charged in this information, is no longer an open question. “A corporation is liable to indictment for nuisances created by the positive act of its officers- or agents in the course of their employment, as by the obstruction of a highway.” 7 Am. and Eng.
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Appeal from Ripley Circuit Court. — Hon. James L. Fori, Judge. (1) That a corporation is liable for an offense like the one charged in this information, is no longer an open question. “A corporation is liable to indictment for nuisances created by the positive act of its officers- or agents in the course of their employment, as by the obstruction of a highway.” 7 Am. and Eng. Ency. of Law (2 Ed.), 842; Clark on Corporations, sec. 7, page 198. (2) Of course, to make the corporation criminally liable for the act of its employee, the employee must commit the act in the course of his employment…
1Opinion of the CourtBarclay, J.
This prosecution was instituted in the Ripley Circuit Court to the November term, 1901, by information of the prosecuting attorney, against the Missouri Tie and Timber Company (a corporation dealing in timber, and operating a private railroad in said county) and against J. B. White, its president, and J. T. Henderson. During the progress of the trial a nolle was entered as to all the defendants, except White, the president of the said company.' The trial proceeded as to the remaining defendant before ■a jury. At the conclusion thereof he was found guilty as charged in the information, and his…
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