CLARE.—Claim Reduced

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 18, 30 April 1903, Page 9

CLARE.— CIaim Reduced

At the Clare Assizes (before Mr. Justice Gibson) an appeal was brought by Edward Dalton, an ex-policeman, of Bodyke, against a decision of the County Court Judge, awarding him £20 compensation Cor malicious injury to a brood mare. He had claimed £60. His Lordship said that he objected to people making money out of the ratepayers, and he greatly disapproved of applicant puttiing in so high a claim for such an olid mare. She would not sell at any fair, he knew, for £10, and he reduced the amount to £10.