Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Thursday 28 October 1909
Cyclist Recovers Damages.
A litigant in the Doncaster County Court yesterday has been under the impression that if a bicycle be left in the street it is necessary to have person in charge.
Messrs. John Maxfield and Son, confectioners, Conisborough, were sued for damage to a bicycle belonging to a youth named Arthur Elwess, an employe of the G.C. Railway, living in Dockin Hill Road.
The bicycle was left against the footpath opposite the Jubilee Boot Company’s shop. A trap came up, in charge of defendants’ man, and the horse, fighting shy of a tramcar, backed into the bicycle and broke the front wheel and forks, doing damage to the extent of 18s.
Defendant: If the bicycle had not been there, it would not have been broken. (Laughter.)
Judgment was given for the sum claimed.