Cullompton Petty Sessions: … A Dangerous Practice: A Burlescombe innkeeper, named George Pinsent, formerly of Tiverton, pleaded not guilty to a summons charging him with leaving a horse unattended on the highway. Superintendent Collins said he was at Uffculme on August 25th, and outside the Brewery premises he saw a horse attached to a trap, in which was seated a little child about two or three years of age. Witness entered the premises and called for the defendant who came out from an inner office. Defendant: The horse was tied up to a crook in the wall; a man afterwards saw me unfasten the rope. Supt. Collins: No, it was not tied up; and even if it were, you have no right to leave a little child at the mercy of whatever might come along. The chairman: The Bench have carefully considered this case, which they dismiss on payment of the costs.
[see also 6th September 1904]
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