DOG LAW

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11692, 29 June 1901, Page 5 (Supplement)

DOG LAW

the major and his deerhounds. -lajor Daviks, of Bath, ia fighting against a magisterial decision for the lives of two of his ei^ 10llnc ' which he values at £100 eac and. a few days ago he appeared before J® ° r< *, $*1 Justice and Justices LawTTin Tr, dl - \ '^ m °re in the King's Bench, iinrl fi aj ? r as sever! d valuable deerhounds, „ j !'\, wo l n question got loose one day ihnnt ® ne i t le Bath police by prowling tJip in- a^fi nded. So the police summoned tint ,' lJor i un<^er the Act which provides xnac stray dogs may, on a magistrate's order, f l' f " ain , ec * y , the police, or, if dangerous, sentpn?. V i magistrates pronounced Iml «, 6 0 ( ] e /i'h on the days. But the major X™ Mwhlle sent the dogs to Frome, R fS °"m a ' f ' ajn escaped- and bit a, gas animil' if r Frome police then seized the Miat' Eroine magistrates decided 1 lainpn 'I' could not order thorn. to be de.,_j '?°, the major recovered possession, ' L•' PP. to the High Court for a writ of certiorari to bring up the Bath magistrates' craon with the view of getting i>, quashed, x vvnen tho case came up. counsel for Major , avie * pointed out that the order that the ogs should be destroyed did not state that the Hogs were dangerous, but only that they yer<s not under proper control, and on that pound he contended that the order was bad. J-hen, he argued, the law did not give power to order a, dog to be destroyed in the first instance, but only that the owner should Keep it- under proper control, in default of doing which he might be fined £1 a day. J-he Lord Chief Justice granted the major's Application,,