 But if the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose of injuring the plaintiff, or of benefiting the defendant at the expense of the plaintiff, it is a malicious act which is in law and in fact a wrong act, and therefore a wrongful act, and therefore...  Principles of the Law of Torts - Page 367by Francis Taylor Piggott - 1885 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 776 pages
...another without lawful excuse." Citing many authorities. In Bowen v. Hall, 6 QB Div? 333, it is said : " If the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose...therefore an actionable act if injury ensues from it." Lord-Justice Bowen, in Mogul Steamship Co. v. McGregor, 23 QB Div. 608 : " Now, intentionally to do... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 796 pages
...court: "Merely to persuade a person to break his contract may not be wrongful in law or fact; still, if the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose of injuring the plaintiff, or benefiting the defendant at the expense of the plaintiff, it is a malicious act, which, in law and... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 714 pages
...Guarantee and Accident Co. v. Horn, supra, the court quoted from Bva'en v. Hall, 6 QBD 333, as follows: "If the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose...therefore an actionable act if injury ensues from it." The court also there re-affirmed the doctrines of Dorcmus v. Hennessy by quoting therefrom, as follows:... | |
 | Law - 1899 - 710 pages
...speaking of the case, then under consideration, of persuading another to break his contract, said : " If the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose...expense of the plaintiff, it is a malicious act." In Flood v. Jackson, Kennedy, J., said that the word maliciously, as applied to that case, meant :... | |
 | Law - 1896 - 542 pages
...for the indirect purpose of injuring another, or of benefiting himself at the expense of that other, "it is a malicious act, which Is in law and in fact...therefore an actionable act, if injury ensues from It." Per Lord Justice Brett, now Lord Esher, In Bowen v. Hall (1881), 6 QBD 333. This admittedly Involves... | |
 | Law - 1881 - 684 pages
...plaintiff, but the desire to benefit self at the expense of the plaintiff. Lord Justice Brett says, " If the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose...therefore an actionable act, if injury ensues from it." Is the proposition to be considered to be as wide as this, viz. that wherever a person induces another... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 896 pages
...his contract, may not be wrongful in law or fact as in the second case put by Coleridge, J. ('). But if the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose...therefore an actionable act if injury ensues from it. We think that it cannot be doubted that a malicious act, such as is above described-, is a wrongful... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1156 pages
...break his contract may not be wrongful in law or fact, as In the second case put by Coleridge, CJ But if the persuasion be used for the Indirect purpose...therefore an actionable act If injury ensues from it We think that it cannot be doubted that a malicious act, such as is above described, Is a wrongful... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 1132 pages
...ยป Merely to persuade a person to break his contract may not be wrongful In law or fact, * * * but, If the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose...which is In law and In fact a wrong act, and therefore an actionable act If injury ensued from it" The doctrine of these cases has been verj generally adopted,... | |
 | Charles Collett - Damages - 1886 - 526 pages
...break such contract with the natural result of causing loss to the employer will be liable to him ; and if the persuasion be used for the indirect purpose...malicious act which is in law and in fact a wrong act, and so actionable." From the relationship of parent and child, a duty of service by the latter is presumed... | |
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