3 JANUARY 1947, Page 8

Horses, I find, must not presume too much on the

recent decision of the House of Lords that they may stray on the highway as mnch as they choose. Someone sends me particulars of a case in which a Hull firm was mukted (not very drastically) in the sum of Li for letting four horses stray on the Beverley Road. No 'doubt, in the light of the Lords' decision, the horses' owners could get them- selves exonerated on appeal if it were worth while—which it obviously wouldn't be. .