SHEEP DOG KILLED
WOMAN MOTORIST PAYS £l7 (From Our Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, To-day. Claiming that defendant had deliberately run over his sheep dog, Reginald Russell, a drover of Hamilton East, sued Margaret Gall for £ 30, the estimated value of the animal, before Mr. F. W. Platts, S.M., m the Magistrate’s Court to-day. . Mr A L. Tompkins, for the plaintiff. .said that defendant was “free, wheeling” down Bridge Street Hill and should have had the car under control when passing stock. The dog was very valuable and the best sheep “leader” in the Waikato. The defence was that the accident happened in a flash, ajid plaintiff did not tell defendant she woujd be held liable until three and a-half months later, and a general denial of the speed allegation. His Worship held defendant to be responsible and gave judgment for plaintiff for £l7, with costs.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 468, 25 September 1928, Page 1
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