PEDIGREE PUPPIES
DEATH OF MOTHER. CLAIM FOR DAMAGES FAILS. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, June 15. Judgment for defendant was given by Mr Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day in an action for £75 damages brought by Captain F. C. Graham, Petone, against Timothy C. Leadbetter, horse trainer and owner of Allegations were made by plaintiff that a stable boy in the employ of defendant had thrown a stone at an Airedale bitch “Meg Merrilees” and injured her, causing premature whelping, the death of five of her litter shortly after birth and the subsequent death of the bitch. The Magistrate considered that assuming that it were established that the bitch had been struck by a stone, the weight of evidence and the probabilities were that her subsequent death was due not to that, but to lack of power and attention . during . al )d subsequent to her whelping. Plaintiff had not shown that any act of defendant’s servants caused or contributed to the bitch’s death or to the loss of the pups and the claim must therefore fail. ______
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Southland Times, Issue 22043, 16 June 1933, Page 6
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