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THE
vice can be proved, and it is fur- FRENCH JOURNALIST
ther proved that the animal was, nevertheless, allowed by the owner.
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or his agent to stray on the high- way without control in spite of the danger caused thereby, and that as a result an accident occurred, the animal's owner will probably be unable to recover damages, even if he proves that the accident was The rights and liabilities of partly caused by the motorist's
negligence. In such motorists who have the misfortune animal's owner would only be able case the to be involved in an accident with
to recover damages for the loss of an animal are not always apprehis animal if, in spite of his ciated by the layman. The law on the subject is, however, quite alm- have avoided the accident, but negligence, the motorist could ple, although sometimes the facts of a particular case make it di negligently failed to do go. cult to decide, writes a Barrister apply where a motorist has been Precisely the same principles injured as the result of a collision with an animal and wishes to sue the animal's owner. In order to succeed in auch an action he must
at-Law in The Autocar.
In the first place, no driver who injures or kills an animal can be successfully aved for. damages unless It сап be Proved by the animal's
that
owner
the motorist acted negligently,
and that the injury or death was a rosult of his negligence. In other words, the mere fact that a motorlat has killed an animal does not make him liable: it must be shown that its death was caused as a direct result of carelessness in his driving.
way
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The Australian Pan-Pacific Wo- Earlier hours for M.P.'s men's Conference which will sit at recommended by the Select Com- mittee on the Hours of Meeting and Honolulu in August is gradually Rising of the House of Commons. taking form under the guidance of whose report has been lagued as a Mrs. W. Thorn; acting chairman and White Paper, Among the seventeen Miss E. M. Griffin acting secretary, witnesses were the Speaker, Lord
Ullswater former Speaker), andį The Australian delegation (and it
the Leaders and Chief Whips of the is expected to be a very large one) three principal parties. The two was to leave Sydney by the Niagara | main points considered werd on July 25, arriving at Honolulu the "Whether the Ilouse could advan- day before the conference begins, tageously meet at an earlier hour and returning to Sydney in the mid- and rise proportionately earlier, and whether there was any simple meani dle of September. Over 65 nomina-of avoiding very late sittings. tions were received, including three from Adelaide-Mrs. W. Ternent Cooke, Dr. Constance Davey, and Miss Hilda Walter.
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rule. They further recommend, "Among those who know the East | especially for the convenience of at all," says the preliminary report members living at a distance that of the conference, "there is no doubt the normal hours of meeting and as to the value of such continuance rising on Fridays should be 'changed because of the need for western to ten o'clock and three o'clock both European and respectively, and that the standing American becoming more fully orders should be amended accom!- cognisant of the conditions and of | ingly." At present the Friday the problems of the women in the hours are eleven to four. East, as well as the often expressed desire of the women of the East for what help in the presentation of possible methods the women of the West out of their somewhat greater experience can give."
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As regard the prevention of very Museum, South Kensington,
They are the fruit of a nine late or all-night sittings witnesses months' expedition in the little-with most experience were agreed known districts of Okavongo and that the only decisive method of Western Caprivi recently under-accomplishing this would be taken by Captain G. C. Shortridge, diminish both the amount of busi the director of the Kaffrarlan ness taken on the floor of the House
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ANOTHER INJUSTICE..
Aix-en-Provence, June 14, M. Eugene Blanc, French Cape Colony. Journalist, has been fined 200 francs cial of the Natural History Museum and ordered to pay 5,000 fraucs stated, is the most representative damages to the relatives of the late that has ever been secured from any Mr. Vernon Blake, an artist and alone part of the continent of Africa.
It is all very well for the Among the interesting specimens Women's Freedom League to neighbour of the late Miss Branson
bo pointed out to me were a very small protesting that the C.B.E. for Miss (who was murdered in mysterious day-flying bat and a flying squirrel Amy Johnson is "Inadequate and circumstances in the South of from Northern Rhodesis. The int inappropriate," but what about the France) for libelling Mr. Blake Inter is unusual in that the flying much graver scandal, the horrid
membranes Bre attached to the encroachment
rights
100,000 francs.
the on
a pamphlet in connection with the elbows of the front limbs rather liberties, and professional oppor prove that the accident was dus Branson murder case. Mr. Blake's than to their extremities. These tunities of down-trodden daughters to the owner's negligence. It must relatives had asked for damages of squirrels also possess natural climb of Eve, suggested by the simul be remembered that there is no:
ing-irons on the lower surface of taneous announcement that the common-law duty upon the owners of land to fence it in, and that if, stated that extraordinary scenes on a tree they
An Alx message of January 17 their tails, so that when they alight Newdigate Poetry Prize has again are immediately been awarded to a woman? This as a result of faulty fencing, an
were witnessed at the opening of capable of effective movement. la the fourth successive year in animal wanders out on the high- the trial of Francis Pinet, the young Morning Post..
which the female, of the species negligence on the part of the this cannot be pleaded as
manager of a hotel in Les Baux,
has carried off that Oxford honour animal's owner. In order to show
near Marseilles, on a charge of the
and yet the Women's Freedom murder of Miss Olive Branson, a negligence on his part it must be Britishwoman, owner of the hotel,
League, anxious as it obviously is proved, that he allowed an animal who was found dead in a tank in
to find some sort of grievance, to to stray on the highway although the garden of her villa in Les Baux
justify its continued existence, let he knew it had a vicious tendency, on April 27, with a bullet wound on
a mere man get away with the A man was on trial for his life Poet Laureateship without a word g in the case of a bull to charge her forehead. Miss Branson's will at on Irish assizes, before a judge of protest! people, in the ease of a horse to bequeathed the hote to Pinet, who who prided himself on giving the have the Sapphos of Oxford wrest Four times running
prisoner the benefit of every led the bays from man the brute .There was a virulent wordy dual doubt, Counsel for the prosecu- in equal combat-and. nobody sold between two doctors, one declaring tion drew the judge's attention to anything but fair words when Mr. for suicide, the other for murder. the fact that the prisoner was John Masefield, representative of }
A doctor gave evidence support- without counsel to defend him. that defeated and humiliated sex, ing the theory that Miss Branson He also stated that he under- was allowed to walk into the
lash out. It has further been held
that there is nothing negligent in allowing chickens to stray upon the highway:
"Natural and Probable Consequence.
was her lover.
FRIENDS AT COURT.
Thus, if a driver drives too fast in the circumstances, or does not keep a proper look out, or drives on the wrong side of the road, er the like, and as a result kills a dog, the owner of the dog, if he can give or call evidence to prove this -recklessness or carelessness, will be able to recover, damages from the motorist. The question in each case is whether it can be shown that the animal was killed owing to the motorist not taking those Moreover, it has also been held was shot while sitting at dinner, stood that the prisoner refused Lauresteship by as gross an exam- reasonable precautions which the, that, even if it were negligent to Giving evidence for the defence, legal aid and had asked that the ple of sex favouritiam na was ever ordinary reasonable driver does allow an animal to escape on the M. Mueselle; Justice of the Peace, case should be got over as quick seen. Oh! the burning injustice of take.
highway it is not the natural and St. Remy, gave the reason why he by as possible. The judge war | it—and not even Miss Ellen Question of Contributory probable consequence of this reported that Miss Branson had seriously perturbed. He asked Wilkinson said as much as miaow!
Negligence.
negligence that it will cause an ac- committed suicide. The court cen- the prisoner if this was true, and They say one swallow does not There is one qualification to this cident, and the knowledge of asured him for the off-hand manner he received a similar reply. All make a summer, but surely four rule. If, although the animal's special vice in the animal must in which he had hardled the case. that the prisoner wanted was that Newdlgate Prize winners-is enough death was partly caused by the therefore be proved, for, even if A local journalat, M. Eugene the case should be dealt with as motorlat's negligence, E зая a man is negligent, he is only llable Blane, author of a pamphlet on the quickly as possible.. also partly caused by the ter the natural and probable case which has been circulated to all "Do you then plead guilty!" negligence of the animal's owner, results of his negligence.
concerned, gave evidence favouring saked the clerk. the motorist will not be fiable. It can be seen from the foregoing the theory of suicide. The public "Yes," replied the prisoner Bach fogligence, however, is diff- that, in the ordinary way, it is prosecutor censured M. Blanc with only, and get my case over as cuit to prove, and for this reason: very difficult for a motorist to re-regard to the extracts in the pam- quickly as possible. It is the law of this country that cover damages for injury caused to phlet ridiculing Franch justice, and The judge, in his kindness of it is ordinary use of the highway him by another's animal. On the the British police. Counsel for the beart, was distressed. He wished for owners to allow their tame other hand, the motorist cannot be defence took M. Blanc's part, with the man to have every chance. animals, such as cattle, shoep, sued for damages for injuring an the result that a battle of words He, therefore, made an appeal to goats, dogs, poultry, etc., to walk animal unless the injury can be ensued.
the spectators in the court. "Has along the highway, as
proved to have arisen from his
tuls man no friends?”” - he asked. In order, therefore, to show driving negligently,
"Can no one persuade him to de negligence on the part of such an It may well be that the law needs
fend his life?”: animal's owner it must be shown), amendment in view of changing that the animal in question had traffe conditions. On the whole, some special vice (eg, in the case the result of the present law is of a dog, that it had a Kabit of that loss lies where It falls, f.e. running at the front wheels of the owners of animals which are motor cars or cycles) and that this allowed to stray-on-the-highway vide was known to the owner take the risk of their being killed Where knowledge of this special and of themselves repel no
Francois Pinet was acquitted.
to supply a Poet Laureate. The office might have been put into commission and the four sangsters Instructed to turn out their odes in sul-rotation-Manchester Guardian.
There was a silence in the
compensation, while motorists take court the risk of being injured by them and having no redress,
Quite different considerations ap- ply to wild animals which esen Their owners are absolutely lla for any accident they chuse
"Han. he no friends here?" he asked again.
There was a moment's pause and then the jury, wi sent, slowly, roze as one man from their seats -Morning-Poskoku
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