Show ISOT JUDGMENT PROOr It has always been claimed that 4 corporation had neither body to be kicked nor soul to be damned Per haps the observation is literallv true However the Iowa supreme court has affirmed a damage judgment against the International Textbook company gives on account of the allege 1 malicious prosecution of one Henry L White "The company s defense was that there could be no malicious prosecution since a corporation bas no soul or personal ty The supreme court of the Hawkeve state upset th s theory and in tbe opin oo affirming the decision of the lower court remarked that modern tendencies are more and more toward regarding a cor poration as possessing a soul Some one s always responsible for malicious prosecut ons as well as al) other civil and enm nal act ons We do not know anvtb ng about the ner ts of the Iowa case bit f an official of the textbook company was the guilty nartv there is some reason for the decision of the supreme court I |