NOT A NUISANCE
CATTLE STOPS ON A ROAD By Telegraph—Press Association BLENHEIM, February 6. An interesting magisterial decision, that cattle stops on public roads do not constitute a public nuisance, was delivered by Mr T. E. Maunsell, in a reserved judgment in a case in which the owner of a horse which broke its leg in a cattle stop at Wakamarina, and had to be destroyed, claimed damages from the property owner who constructed the cattle stop across the road. The Magistrate said the only grounds on which the plaintiff could succeed were that the cattle stop constituted a public nuisance. In his opinion this was not the case. In any case the plaintiff was infringing the law and creating a potential public nuisance himself in permitting his horse to stray on the highway.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20027, 7 February 1935, Page 6
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134NOT A NUISANCE Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20027, 7 February 1935, Page 6
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