CAT AND DOG IN LAW.
LONDON, March 10. Dr Edwin Smith, the Hammersmith coroner, pointed out at an inquest, an unusual distinction between cats and dogs, in their legal relation to motorists. It was not generally known, he said, that a motorist must treat a dog in the same way as a human being if he ran over one. He was required by law to stop after running over a dog, but he need not do so if. it was a cat.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 379, 22 March 1932, Page 5
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