126 STATUTORY PROVISIONS REGARDING VEHICLES, 



98. A safe Vehicle for Transit. — A raihvay company is 

 bound to supply a proper carriage or van, fitted with all 

 reasonable equipments and fastenings for the conveyance of 

 live stock, and they arc responsible if loss ensue from the 

 vehicle supplied not being reasonably fit for the purpose to 

 which it is put. or from the incompetency of their servants. (a) 

 Thus, where a horse was placed by a railway company in a 

 truck which was insufficient, and the horse put its foot 

 through a hole in the floor and was injured, the railway com- 

 pany were found liable in damages. (6) But it is sufficient if 

 they provide a truck or van which without any extraordinary 

 accident will probably perform the journey ; (c) and Avhich is 

 reasonably sufficient for the conveyance under the ordinary 

 incidents of a railway journey. (c?) 



99. Statutory Provisions regarding Vehicles for the 

 Carriage of Horses. — In the exercise of the powers vested in 

 them under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878,(e) 

 the Privy Council have made numerous regidations as to the 

 construction of trucks, horse boxes, and other vehicles, and 

 their appurtenances for railway transit, and as to the cleans- 

 ing and disinfecting thereof The powers which were for- 

 merly vested in the Privy Council are now transferred to the 

 Board of Agriculture, (/) and the local authority for enforcing 

 the order is the County Council. (^) The provisions of the 

 Animals Order, 18S6, will be found in the Appendix (Ji) along 

 with those of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act regard- 

 ing the provision of an adequate supply of food and water to 



(rt) B. Pr. 165 ; Comhc v. L. tO S. W. Ry. Co., 1874, 31 L.T., KS. 613 ; Blowerx. 

 G. W. Ry. Co., 1872, L.R. 7 C.P. 655 ; Chippendale v. L. <£.• Y. Ry. Co., 1851, 21 

 L.J., Q.B. 22 ; Redhead v. M. Ry. Co., 1867, L.R. 2 Q.B. 412. 



(h) 3I'Manus v. L. cb Y. Ry., 1S59, 4 H. and N. 327. 



(c) Amies V. Stevens, 1 Str. 127. 



(d) Willes, J., in Blower, cit. 

 (c) 41 & 42 Vict, c, 74. 



{/) 52 & 53 Vict. c. 30, § 2 (a), Sch. 1, part 1. 

 {g) 52 k 53 Vict. c. 50, § 11, sub. -sec. 3. 



(/i) Appx. v., which contains the provisions of the Passenger Steamer Amend- 

 ment Act regarding conveyance of hortes. 



