What is the test for using a lead rope to turn a horse in and out of a barn?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Belton v. Spencer, 2021 ONSC 2029 (CanLII):
Although some of the defendant’s witnesses suggest that the plaintiff on occasion, before and after this incident, may not have always used a lead rope in turning the horse in and out of the barn, prior negligence of a party is generally irrelevant to proof of subsequent negligence. Wilson v. Lind, [1985] O.J. No. 535.
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