COW DAMAGES MOTOR
DROVER COUNTER-CLAIMS ANIMAL’S “DEPRECIATION” (From Our Own Correspondent) PAPAKURA, Wednesday. A claim for £25 for damage to his motor-car received in a collision witli a cow on the Great South Road, Papakura, one evening in October, was made by Thomas Archibald Felton in the Papakura Police Court to-day. A counter-claim for 15s a week for eight and a-half weeks for handfeeding the cow on bran, and 5s a week for loss of milk, also £6 “depreciation,” was advanced by the drover, R. Aitcheson. Plaintiff alleged that the cow was on the wrong side of the road, at a sharp bend, and he did not see the animal until too late. He stated also that the drover gave a wrong name and address after the accident. For the defence, it was claimed that plaintiff was driving at an excessive speed, and that the accident was on the straight, not on a corner. Judgment was reserved.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 595, 22 February 1929, Page 10
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157COW DAMAGES MOTOR Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 595, 22 February 1929, Page 10
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