What is the effect of permitting a bull to be at large?

In the instant case, however, it cannot be seriously argued that what the defendant’s bull did was not what one might reasonably have anticipated as a result of permitting it to be at large. As stated in Richardson v. Dorn, “the defendant should have anticipated that after the bull escaped it would likely molest any cows”. That was an ordinary consequence as a result of the bull running at large. Further, as stated in Cox v. Burbidge, supra, “whether or not the escape of the animal is due to [the defendant’s] negligence, is altogether immaterial.”