STRAYING STOCK
COLLISIONS WITH MOTORISTS,
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
SYDNEY, 26th August.
The claim with which one of the New South Wales shire councils has been confronted, for damages to a motorcar sustained through colliding with a calf wandering about on a road, opens up a question of interest alike to motorists and local governing bodies. The belief that, in such a case, a council is liable, because if it were to impound all stray stock there would be none left on the road, is, it appears, quite wrong. The point is emphasised by one of Australia's leading authorities, on local government that those who allow their stock to stray are the wrongdoers, and that a claim upon a council in such circumstances would be no more logical than to base one against the Crown in respect of a burglary, on the ground that if the police had been a little more wide awake all the burglars would be securely locked up. If, therefore, a cow declines to get out of the road of one's car, and something happens, the owner of the car must call, if he seeks damages, not on the council, but on the owner of the errant cow.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 68, 17 September 1926, Page 8
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202STRAYING STOCK Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 68, 17 September 1926, Page 8
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