Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 January 1959.
Mr Reginald Manningham-Buller
, Northamptonshire South
12:00,
20 January 1959
The Question relates to horses straying on the highway, not runaway horses—a very different thing. As regards animals straying on the highway, the common law has been the same for a very long time. I do not know the facts of the cases to which the hon. Gentleman refers, but if they were animals which strayed on to the highway there would, of course, be no liability.