HORSE RACING ON SUNDAY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2360, 18 May 1899, Page 36

HORSE RACING ON SUNDAY.

At the Four Courts, Dublin, in March, the Vice-Chancellor delivered judgment granting an injunction in the action of ' Dewar v. the City and Suburban Racecourse Company. His Lordship said in the course his judgment: "The plaintiffs examined several officers and men of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, who proved that large crowds ■pi people attended those Sunday races, and 'ihat they were more noisy and disorderly £han at other race meetings. As to the principal matters of fact in the controversy I diave in this conflict of testimony come to ,£he conclusion that the evidence on the part ]oi the plaintiffs of matters of fact within Jiheir own personal observation has not been shaken by the evidence of the defendant?. On a full consideration of the evidence on 'both sides, I have arrived at the conclusion jfchat the plaintiffs have sufficiently established 'that the setting up of this racecourse and -jbhat the holding of horse raeeß there, especially on Sundays, constitute^ a nuisance to *the p?Sn tiffs and the other inhabitants in jlhe neighbourhood, and that this nuisance is of a grave .character, materially interfering during the holding of races with the ■comfort and enjoyment of their houses, and is one which they ate entitled to call on "this court to prevent". I say especially on Sundays, because on that day of the week there are far more, facilities for the collecjfcion, of crowds of idle and disorderly persons than on week days. I shall, therefore, an injunction to restvain the defendants, their agents and servants, from holding or continuing to hold on Sundays any horse races or race meetings on the plot of ground called the racecourse in the pleadings mentioned, or otherwise disturbing the quiet and comfortable enjoyment of their houses and -gardens thereto belougin)^ to the inhabitants in the neighbourhood of the racecourse on ISundays, and from interfering with or disturbing the celebration of Divine service on Sundays in the churches or chapels in the neighbourhood, and from obstructing the jstreets, passages, and public roads leading to or from the said racecourse. Defendants to pay the coats of the action." ~ v