. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July 22, 1915.] THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. 253. THE OWNERSHIP OF A SWARM. The following pai'ticulars compiled from accounts in several papers will no doubt be interesting to our readers. The ques- tion as to the ownership of stray swarms often crops up. In this case the defen- dant evidently took the swarm from land in the occupation of the plaintiff and was, we think rightly, made to pay for them. LAW FOR BEES. Peculiar Case at Torquay. Price of a Double Swarm. Strange things appear in courts of law at times, and on Saturday at the Torquay
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July 22, 1915.] THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. 253. THE OWNERSHIP OF A SWARM. The following pai'ticulars compiled from accounts in several papers will no doubt be interesting to our readers. The ques- tion as to the ownership of stray swarms often crops up. In this case the defen- dant evidently took the swarm from land in the occupation of the plaintiff and was, we think rightly, made to pay for them. LAW FOR BEES. Peculiar Case at Torquay. Price of a Double Swarm. Strange things appear in courts of law at times, and on Saturday at the Torquay County Court a man brought a number of honey-bees in two glass jars and some more in a match-box. He appeared to be de- sirous that another person should identify them, and certainly an expert would ex- perience more than a little trouble in doing so. The Judge declined in any way to ex- amine the sample. " I am afraid they will examine me," he added, with a laugh. It appeared from the statements made that bees even have not escaped the atten- ion of the Legislature. In the event of a hive swarming on a neighbour's land, the neighbour can hive them, provided that the owner does not follow. In that case the owner is permitted by law to go into another person's garden in order to undertake the somewhat delicate task of shaking them from a tree into a hive. The action on Saturday was brought by iMr. John Mudge, who keeps a number of hives in another person's garden in Mead- foot Road, and he claimed the value of a double swarm from Mr. William Brooking, the amount being placed at £2. Mr. E. Hutchings, for the plaintiff, stated that early in May Mudge went to examine his hives, and noticed that one of them must have swarmed. Defendant came up to him and said, " What will you give me if I tell you where your bees are ? " A sum was mentioned, but this was de- clined. Subsequently, the plaintiff asked the defendant where the bees were, and Brooking would not tell.
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