LOSS OF RACEHORSE
OWNER’S AIM TAILS. (Per Press Association.) Auckland, Nov. 14. A claim for damages for loss of the racehorse Welkne in an accident near Penrose resulted in a majority verdict for the defendant. The horse had to be destroyed after a collision with a motor-car on September 25. The owner, Bernard Goldwater, claimed from the driver of the car, Albert Schubert, builder’s foreman, £525 for the value of the horse and three guineas veterinary expenses. The plaintiff contended that the car was driven into the horse with violence, but the defence held that the horse got out of control, having reared and fallen on to the car. which Schubert pulled up when he saw that Welkne had became restive.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 283, 14 November 1929, Page 6
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