"I do not wish in any way to depart from the principle that a wrongdoing director, whether he be morally or legally wrong, should be made liable for the highest amount which could have been obtained from the property wrongly taken by him while it was in his hands."
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Webster, M.R., Shaw v. Holland (1900), L. R. 2 C. D.; C A. [1900], p. 310; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904).
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