INTERESTING TO SHEEP FARMERS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 779, 4 February 1887, Page 10

INTERESTING TO SHEEP FARMERS.

(united press association.) Napier, February 1. A case of considerable importance to sheep-farmers and to owners of dogs was today heard before Mr Preece, R.M. Marchant, lately the possessor of two dogs, sought to recover from Moore and Mertzhager, of Waimarama, the sum of £3O, under the following circumstances : —The defendants suffered through their sheep being worried by dogs, and Moore one .day finding a couple of dogs among his sheep, apparently in the act of worrying them, killed both the dogs. Mr Marchant, owner of the animals, denied that they had worried the sheep, and relied upon the fact of the dogs being yoked together when found as a proof, that the alleged worrying was impossible. Mr Dick, on behalf of the plaintiff, quoted a case in which the value of dogs killed was recovered, the animals having been caught among sheep, and led away and killed. Mr Cotterell, for defendants, urged that the law and facts were against the plaintiff, and that the case quoted was not similar in any way to the one before the Court, as in that the dogs were killed among the sheep. His Worship gave judgment for defendants.