Taken for a Ride: Distinguished Lawyer Unwittingly Books Hackney Cab Drawn by his own Double-Jobbing Horse, 1856

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Travel back to the roguish Dublin of times past with this tale of a distinguished Irish lawyer, who one day took a hackney car from the Four Courts only to find out that it was being pulled by his very own carriage horse, hired out by his errant coachman without the lawyer’s consent or knowledge!


Clipping from the Advocate, 2 August 1856.

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