Horse owner fails in negligence case against Tipperary vet

A horse owner who claimed a veterinary surgeon was negligent in carrying out of a pre-purchase examination on a horse which she bought but later had to have put down has lost her action for damages in the High Court.

Philipa Grahame Knowles, whose livery yard in Shropshire, England, broke in horses for eventing trials, sued John Halley, practising and trading as O'Byrne and Halley Veterinary Surgeons, Fethard, Co Tipperary.