HORSES BEHAVIOUR
SUPREME COURT ACTION
Further evidence about the habits of a horse which bolted on a Te Horo farm and upset a spring. cart was heard in the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon and to-day at the hearing of the action, for damages brought by.Beuben Oscar Knight, aged 15, through his father, against a farmer, Bupert Henry Knight. As a result of the accident, Keuben Knight's right thigh was fractured, and he suffered other injuries. He claimed 65 weeks' wages, totalling £•165, hospital and medical expenses, and £300 general damages.
At the conclusion of the evidence and after hearing the impressions of counsel (Mr. "P. J. O'B-egan "for the plaintiff and Mr. W. E. Leicester for the defendant), the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) reserved his decision.
A number of Te Horo residents, called as witnesses by the plaintiff, said that they did not regard the- horse as suitable for any purpose other than ploughing. One-of the witnesses. Leslie Burton. Styles, said that after the accident the horse was sent to Manakau. It was now back on Mr. Knight's farm, and was in poor condition.
* Mr. Leicester: Perhaps it is grieving over the accident.
George Burton Styles, another witness for the plaintiff, admitted that he had offered to buy the horse after the accident with a view to disposing of it to a Lower Hutt carrier and making some money on the sale. The horse was high-spirited, and might be called by some people "mad-headed/ but Ms •sriew was that it would be all right if given constant work. The carrier he had in mind as a prospective buyer would have found suitable work for the horse, which would have made it safe.
" It was admitted by the defence that at other times the horse had bolted from a standing position, but not, until the accident, while it was being driven by the defendant. The evidence was that the horse was.in no way unsafe to drive in a spring cart, and that the defendant had no reason to believe that it was unsafe to drive.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 125, 23 November 1932, Page 9
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345HORSES BEHAVIOUR Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 125, 23 November 1932, Page 9
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