Alexander is the chief executive officer o

问题：

Alexander is the chief executive officer of –OAO- Trade. While driving back from a business meeting to his company’s head office, Alexander lost control of his company car. The car collided with a vegetable stall by the side of the road before hitting the shop front of a restaurant, causing considerable damage to the vegetable stall and the restaurant.The owner of the vegetable stall claimed that the accident destroyed all of his stock, valued at 50.000 roubles. Alexander quickly wrote, signed and dated a note acknowledging that the company would pay 50.000 roubles to the owner of the vegetable stall, which was countersigned by the owner of the vegetable stall. Alexander agreed with the owner of the restaurant that any claim should be submitted to –OAO- Trade in writing.Four days later, –OAO- Trade received a letter from the owner of the vegetable stall claiming that the damaged inventory was worth 75.000 roubles and that it would be claiming this sum from the company. The company also received a letter from the owner of the restaurant claiming 100.000 roubles for the damage to the front of the building, 50.000 roubles to replace furniture destroyed in the accident and 200.000 roubles for business that would be lost in the next three months while the restaurant was being repaired.Required:Discuss the extent to which –OAO- Trade and Alexander personally would be liable in respect of the claims made by the owner of the vegetable stall and the owner of the restaurant. (10 marks)