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a l last winter the i supreme court of canada i stunned snowmobilers i and anti snowmobilers alike by awarding 29537 i to a snowmobile dnver- l injured while trespassing on a northern ontario mining property no sighs warning snowmobilers asser wins thetrlbunethursdayrmay is 1975 r9 i v- f case precedent the judgment side of the road- veinot merely reaffirms a was bit in the face longstanding one a man ti isinnocent until proven the pipe and posts guilty because theyhwerc un- r painted would have been the snowmobile invisible at night evenjn driver a stranger to the of a area didnt know he was snowmobile the f the action its critics warn sets a dangerous precedent and leaves if property owners throughout ontario open y to similar such judgments they say it a affronts reason and that it suggests that private property no longer exists in canada how and by what right asked a newspaper reader m a letter to the editor can any one be given any compensation while he is k i engaged in an unlawful or illegal undertaking on private property the court held there were no signs to tell him it was dark and the plowed private road he was using looked like a public road and had no markings to show it wasnt the area involved is on the quebec border near kirkland laker court held the pipe- which plowed road constituted a gate closing veinot did the road to traffic coming from virginiatown had been erected some 20 years earlier to prevent unauthorized traffic from reaching a powder- magazine pnthe property owhedby kerr- addison mines limited because it knewthat a number of old roadv including the one used by tbeveinots intersected the property but posted t no signs on them declaring the- property was private and didnt close the intersection- proclivity for travel by in an uncharted night the ease by which canadian wilderness the plowed road could be area of forest rivers and reached by the several lakes one could old rbads leading on to it reasonably expect them would have beenalerted snowmobiles to go in on a moments reflection almost any direction at to- the probability of least until such time as someone reaching the they reached indication of as mr private property if there was a likelihood that someone would come upon the plowed road on a snowmobile at night and the evidence in my view supports a likelihood then i do not think- there can be doubt that the company failed in the dutyit owned mr veinot to treat him with common humanity in awarding veinot damages the court set aside a judgment by the ontario court jf appeal and restored a jury trial judgment the jury had held there was implied permission 5 and the supreme court ruled that this finding shouldnt be disturbed- f- r weve read a tran script of the- supreme court judgment and we i argue 11181 it only in- i dicates that considering circumstances x the area sufficient care must j be takento indicate that a property j is privatel if such care is takenno one i need l fear jieil be held resppnsiblevfor a trespassers injuries we argue too that instead ofestablishing a t travelling with a party peter veinot and his wife of larder lake about 10 miles east of the location were in the lead when they turned from a logging road onto the plowed road the road extension of a road into i j virginiatown mm- g on e mediately dast the logging road the veinots ten r had used to reach it had in giving the courts no signs and bore signs of reasons for its judgment repeated snowmobile use mr justice dickson said it appearstome that a travelling l between person of good sense in j the7position of the defendant company possessing the knowledge which lts responsible officers possessedabout snowmobiles and the worth his w a good salesman is an expert at teaching people that a potential possession is worth doing what is required to own it 15ahd 20 miles ah hour they turned toward virginiatown veinots machine passed under an- unpainted rusty pipe suspended 45 inches off the ground by two un- 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