DAMAGE CLAIM FAILS
Destruction of Horse By Telegraph—Press Association. Blenheim, February 6. An interesting magisterial decision that cattle stops on public roads do not constitute a public nuisance was delivered by Mr. T. E. Maunsell, S.M., in his reserved judgment in a case in which the owner of a horse which broke a leg in a cattle stop at Wakamarina and had to be destroyed claimed damages from the property owner who constructed the eattle stop across-tbe road. The magistrate said that the only grounds on which the plaintiff could succeed were that the cattle stop constituted a public nuisance, and in his opinion this was not the case. In any case the plaintiff was infringing the law and creating a potential public nuisance himself in permitting his horse to stay on the highway.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 114, 7 February 1935, Page 11
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134DAMAGE CLAIM FAILS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 114, 7 February 1935, Page 11
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