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PLEADING, EVIDENCE AND DAMAGES. 



Where the 

 Damages are 

 very small. 



chaser to claim damages in respect of an iujmy lie liad 

 suffered in consequence of their purchase {d). But it 

 seems that if the defendant had sent tainted animals into 

 the public market-place, and the plaintiff's animals, in 

 that public place, by contact or neighbom-hood had been 

 infected, and the plaintiff suffered loss, that he might have 

 recovered damages for that loss (e). 



Of course if the Unsoundness be slight, so also ought 

 to be the Damages ; and if they be very inconsiderable, 

 the Judge may make an order under Ord. LV. r. 1, that 

 the costs shall not follow the event (/). 



(d) Ward v. Hobhs, ante, note lb). 



[e) Ibid, per Lord Cairns, C. 

 (/') Turner -V. HeyJand, L. R., 5 



C. P. D. 432 ; 48 L. J., C. P. 535 ; 

 41 L. T., N. S. 556. See also 

 Garnet t v. Bradletj, L. R., 3 App. 



Cas. 941; 48 L. J., Ex. 186; 39 

 L. T., N. S. 261. Reversing judg- 

 ment of the Court of Appeal, L. 

 R., 2 Ex. D. 349; 46 L. J., Ex. 

 545 ; 36 L. T., N. S. 725. 



