SHOOTING OF DOGS.
A RESERVED JUDGMENT. At the Magistrate’s Court this morning Mr H. Y. Widdowson, S.M. gave a reserved judgment in the case in which Malcolm Matliieson, a musterer and drover, claimed from R. Mundy, of Belfast, the sum of £65, the value of three dogs belonging to plaintiff, which were shot by defendant, and £sl 4s for loss of wages owing to the loss of the dogs preventing plaintiff from following bis occupation. Defendant counter-claimed for the sum of. £99-. in respect to damages to poultry, seed beds, cabbage and lettuce plants, and general damages to property, alleged to have been caused by plaintiff’s d °£ s -
The Magistrate said be regarded plaintiff’s evidence as most unsatisfactory and unreliable. He would be nonsuited on the claim and on the counterclaim judgment would bo for defendant for £3O damages with costs.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17350, 15 May 1924, Page 7
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