In giving judgement, the Pre sident emphasized the point that the defendant had pleaded ignorance of the fabrication of the spurious liquor and had thrown all the' responsibility upon the shoulders of his employees, Battistuzzi, the chemist, the godown keeper, and particularly Mack, who had charge of the wines and spirits. An employer must at all times be held responsible for the actions of the employees, and therefore the Court was bound to find him: guilty of complicity in the manufacture of the spurious liquors, as well as the imitation of labels and trade marks to defraud the public.
As a creditor of Reid's, Inc., he bought their entire machinery and installation for the bottling and manufacture of the liquors. He could not have been ignorant of the fact that this firm had carried on the manufacture and bottling of these inferior liquors. He had also taken over matrices for the manufacture of false labels, apparatus for branding corks and
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