STRAYING STOCK
C0LLISI0N WITH MOTORS. QUESTION OF LIAB1LITY. SYDNEY, Aug. 26. Tlie claim with which one of the New South AVales shire councils has been eonfronted, for damages to a motor-car sustained through colliding with a calr wandering about on a road, opens up a question of in- - terest a-like to motorists and local 1 governing bodies. The helief that, in such a case, a oouncil is Ifable, becanse if it wore to im,poTini all stray stoek there would he none left upon the road, is, it iappears, quite wrong.
The point is emphasised hv one of Australia's Ieading authorities on local government that those who allow their stoek to stray are the wrongdoers, and that a claim upon a oouncil in such circumstances woind be no _more logioal than to hase one against the Crown in res]>ect of a burglary, on the ground that if the police had been a little more wide awake all the hurglars would be securely locked up. If, theiefore, a cow deelines to get out of the road of one's car and sometlnng happens. the owner of the car must call, if he seeks damages, ' not on the council , but on the owner 0f the errant cowI
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Marlborough Express, Volume LX, Issue 229, 28 September 1926, Page 8
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203STRAYING STOCK Marlborough Express, Volume LX, Issue 229, 28 September 1926, Page 8
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