Question

Principle: A citizen is expected to take the 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 of Y' s negligent driving and injured him seriously. P sued X for damages.
Two persons are said to be joint tort-feasors when

Options

• a person on account of his negligence gives opportunity to another for committing a tort

• two or more persons are simultaneously involved in committing a wrong

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

• two persons together commit a tort

Answer 1

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

Explanation:

Tort-feasors are the persons who commit the 'tort'  jointly or together.