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Mr. Justice Byles : So do I, gentlemen. 

 Verdict for the defendant. 



[Note. — The results of the post mortem clearly established 

 that the death arose from some other cause than that 

 alleged by the plaintiff. The fact that the presence of a 

 large number of bots has been regarded as the cause of 

 death is one well known to veterinarians, but only when 

 they are situated upon the mucus membrane at the pyloric 

 end of the stomach, or else within the duodenum or part 

 of the bowel leading out from the stomach. In the latter 

 position they have been kno\\Ti to produce stricture and 

 have been associated with that form of bot which usually 

 occupies the rectum and is known as gastrophihis 

 hccmorrhoidalis. 



The contention that the presence of bots in itself con- 

 stitutes unsoundness is wholly untenable.] 



Birch-Reynardson v. Tilley. 



DESCRIPTION AS " GOOD HUNTER " — ALLEGED WARRANTY 

 OF " SOUNDNESS." 



At the Southampton County Court in the case of 

 Vere Birch Reynardson v. J. A. Tilley, Mr. Lamport 

 appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. White for the defendant. 

 Plaintiff, of Testbourne House, Totton, sought to recover 

 from the defendant, a riding master, of Alton, the sum of 

 £39 i8s., purchase money of a gelding sold by Messrs. 

 Perkins and Sons, Southampton, to defendant at the 

 repository, and in the alternative claimed the amount of 

 defendant's cheque paid to Messrs. Perkins, and endorse'd 

 by them to plaintiff, payment of which was stopped. 



Mr. Lamport, in addressing the Court, said the facts of 

 the case were exceedingly simple. The plaintiff was the 



