Can a corporation be civilly responsible to a traveller who is injured in an accident?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Cornwall (Town) v. Derochie, 1894 CanLII 25 (ON CA):
I think it not unlikely that the corporation might be civilly responsible to such a traveller on the ground that the act having been done in obedience to their by-law might be regarded as their own act as in Foreman v. Mayor of Canterbury, L.R. 6 Q.B. 214, where the liability was held to depend not upon the defendants’ relation to the highway by reason of being charged with the duty of repairing it, but upon the ground that the obstruction was placed there by the defendants’ servants.
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