WRONG BULL KILLED
FARMER'S CLAIM UPHELD [from our OWN correspondent] CAMBRIDGE, Wednesday An unusual case was heard in the Cambridge Magistrate's Court this morning, when Hugh P. Hewitt, a farmer nt Te Miro, sought to recover from Thomas Wallace and James Dunning Wallace, tho latter proprietor of a boiling-down works, compensation for a Shorthorn bull, which was removed from tho saleyards and killed by mistake. Counsel for plaintiff said that on February 27 his "client bought a bull from a stock firm and obtained permission to leave it at tho salcyards for a week. J. D. Wallaco also purchased a bull from another company and asked a stock agent to tell a drover to take his bull to tho boiling-down works. Instead of getting tho bull from tho pen, the drover took tho bull belonging to plaintiff and it was killod. Counsel contended that the defendants had been negligent. Tho sum of £lO was claimed as the value of tho bull.
After hearing tho evidence; Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., gave judgment for plaintiff for £7 10s and costs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22260, 7 November 1935, Page 18
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