HORSE DESTROYED
DAMAGES CLAIM FAILS
(Isy Telegraph—fress Association.!
BLENHEIM, This Day. An interesting magisterial decision that cattle stops on public roads do: not constitute a public nuisance was delivered by Mr. T. E. Maunsell, S.M., in his reserved judgment in a case in which the owner of a horse which broke a leg in a cattle stop at Wakamarina and had to be destroyed claimed' damages from the property owner who constructed the cattle stop across the road.
The: Magistrate said that the only grounds on which the plaintiff could succeed were that the cattle stop constituted a public nuisance, and in his opinion this was not the case. In any case the plaintiff was infringing the law and creating a potential public nuisance . himself in permitting his horse to stay on the highway.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 12
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