AIREDALE’S DEATH

Grey River Argus, 16 June 1933, Page 5

AIREDALE’S DEATH

PLAINTIFF NON-SUITED. (Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 15. Judgment for the defendant was given by Mr Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, in the action for £75 damages, brought by Capt. F. C. Graham, of Petone, against Timothy C. Leadbetter, a horse trainer and owner, ’of Petone. Allegations were made by the plaintiff that the stable boy in the employ of defendant had thrown a stone at an Airedale bitch. “Meg Merrilees,” and injured her. causing premature whelping death of five of her litter shortly after birth, and the subsequent death of the bitch. The Magistrate considered that assuming that it. were established that 'the bitch had been struck by the stone, the -weight of evidence and the probability was that her subsequent death was due not to that incident but to the lack of proper attention during and subsequent to her whelping. The plaintiff had not shown that anv act of the defendant’s servants had caused or contributed to the bitch’s death, or to loss of her pups, and the claim must therefore fail.