DOMESTIC PIGS SHOT BY MISTAKE
OWNER AWARDED £lOO DAMAGES (From Our Own Reporter) GREYMQUTH, August 12. The shooting of a boar and a sow and the injuring of a second sow was the of a civil claim for damages in the Magistrate’s Court at Greymouth. The plaintiff, Dotiglas Renton Barron, of Totara Flat, was awarded £lOO, the full amount claimed, for the loss of the pigs. Defendant was Peter Edward Melkle. 20, an apprentice sheet metal worker, of Christchurch, and his uncle, Leonard BenfelL a railway worker, of Totara Flat, was joined as a third party. Mr H. J. Thompson. S.M., exonerated Benfell and awarded the full damages claimed . gainst Meikle, who admitted killing the pigs. Meikle claimed that he relied upon Benfell for guidance. He thought that the pigs were wild and that they were shooting on Crown lands, when they were actually on Bayron’s property. The Magistrate suggested there was nothing, to prevent the uncle giving his nephew a helping hand in the matter.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27427, 13 August 1954, Page 12
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