TWO-WAY AFFAIR
Does a vendor’s liability, in guaranteeing his sheep as sound in the feet, end once the sheep have changed hands under the auctioneer’s hammer?
This question has arisen following an item in last week’s farm page which emphasised that buyers, in effect, purchase at their own risk. Since then a member of the Stock and Station Agents' Association has been asked whetlier the warranty on soundness of feet ends upon their sale. His reply has been that such a warranty survives the sale of the sheep, and that the situation could arise where a purchaser, finding that such sheep have footrot or abscess, w'ould have recourse against the vendor.
The situation is clear to the extent that buyers should not only beware, but that vendors should also exercise great care in guaranteeing their sheep as sound in the feet.
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Press, 25 February 1977, Page 14
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