Question

Principle : A citizen is expected to take reasonable duty of care while driving on the road and not to cause injuries to any person.

Facts : X, the owner of a car, asked his friend Y to drive the car to his office. As the car was near his (X's) office, it hit a pedestrian P on account 'Y's negligent driving and injured him seriously. P sued X for damages.

Two persons are said to be joint tort-feasors when ______________.

• A. a person on account of his negligence gives opportunity to another for committing a tort
• B. two or more persons are simultaneously involved in committing a wrong
• C. a tort is committed by two or more persons or any one of them when they are engaged in furtherance of a concerted purpose
• D. two persons together commit a tort

Answer 1

The correct option is C a tort is committed by two or more persons or any one of them when they are engaged in furtherance of a concerted purpose

• Where two or more persons are liable in respect of the same liability, in most common law legal systems they may either be jointly liable, or severally liable, or jointly and severally liable.
  
• In the legal parlance, joint tortfeasor means two or more persons whose collective negligence in a single accident or event causes damages to another person. Joint tortfeasors may be held jointly and severally liable for damages, meaning that any of them can be responsible to pay the entire amount, no matter what proportion of responsibility each has. Hence, it is a tort is committed by two or more persons or any one of them when they are engaged in furtherance of a concerted purpose.