BOVINE ESCAPADE
A fanner whose cows all came home drunk has won a damages claim against the Government. The official referee, Mr William Stabb, said in the High Court in London that Margaret, Matilda, Elsie, Buttercup and a group of friends had presented themselves to their owner, Mr David Butler, of Woolly Green farm, Braishfield, Hampshire, “lurching and staggering, and making the most unusual noises.” It transpired that theyhad all been on the rhodo> dendron leaves. And this was because the Government Forestry Commission had removed one of Mr Butler’s fences. The court allowed Mr Butler’s claim for the equivalent of SNZ2BO, which was based on the fact that the cows’ milk yield had fallen drastically, and he had had to sell nine of them.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32565, 26 March 1971, Page 19
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