ROVING RAMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 662, 12 November 1909, Page 10

ROVING RAMS.

,f' ; . ;'INTERESTING^isKSPASiS ; ,CASE,'?"" ■ : A caseSpf 'interest t6-farmers',.',touching the question of liability;for. the". Btraying. of. raius.i was: heard !,;bef6re;tho ; .lnyercarjj;iU\iuagisfratp, last -iv.'eek.;'. The'■ case'.'was' oho ', in which Jesse X-iibbs ■■(Mr.v-.'G:;;M'Dohiild)/suqd'vßichard B.eriy' ;(Mi;;'Av- B; : in)nfy caused to plaintiS'Si,snebuVby.: ; ;.the.|trespasS.;.on March, 29. v .incurred • l tl^βrβb■^^y^'h , β^•lacfa;.i'bfttb;^■ : ■were"!that /theV.parUesKaro : ; farjriers:.residing at'.Awaruay and. that..three 'rams, '"belonging to •defendant, ;got. Unobserved into a , paddock, of )Plaiht.i)t's"-..')'a.nd^''at(iqngU,-;a. ■--'flock ■of V'young ; .'- noticed '*. them;. the ; , following moming.'i asd;;he '.andVhis'. soli"'musteredrthe ;tlock audjtobt.thejiamsjdut.', 'Plairitiß advef-, .tjsed';ttit^the^ownsr-of 'ithe" raiiis.'could have 'same ;■ by '- paying".' expenses; ■ ■ and ■ when '.'plaintiff was ;not at hand defendant went- and got the rams Vfttom'rpla'ititiff 'i: son.. ■.In '~ ,du'e course,' .twentpiive'i dr" the'■ ewes lambed/ "and ,teni'b{<'th'emy.'died,. : eleven of .them .had'so-miWli.'troixbl'ejihat: their-value depreciated :to • <pf; about' ;ss: each. The "ewev plaintiff .■said.r-'were! a'Border. Leicester, cross,'and were being . kept purposes,-; but they.were/;ys too'.-young/arid that .was-the' reason/of ■'the. injury .and loss. After the rams were'taken away by- defendant' the plaintiff .wroli) claiming <£2 35., bnt since then the lnmbs-'.and -owes..-',had died, "and ,'he now 'claimed for.the further loss. p ;."■■ •.'.:• : L :Th6" magistrate held that plaintiff might have , comm.iinicated...with defotidant at the time the sheep wore on his property, yfhen he knew or suspected whose ranis .they were, in-, etoad of advertising . as,: he /did/,, Judgment ■would ibefor defendant, ? with;.2is. ,costs. ' .: ;':,