Langport County Court: Wednesday: … Jury Case: Adam Sherrin, farmer, etc. High Ham, v. James Taylor, yeoman, Nythe, Pedwell. This was a claim for £50, “for damages sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of the defendant’s negligence, in allowing a horse of his to unlawfully break into a field occupied by the plaintiff, and kick and otherwise injure a mare, from which injuries the mare died”. This was a jury case, and the following gentlemen were sworn to try it: Messes. Maurice Davis, Portway; T. T. Cuff, Burton Pynsent; Thomas Bicknell, Fivehead …
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