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doctor tlic animal himself, in case it should fall ill 

 or injure itself. It has boon heLl that if a hired Not pm- 

 horse is taken ill on the road and the hirer calls i,irerof 

 in a farrier, then the former is not responsihle ; but '^'"/^in^t ^q 

 if he chooses to prescribe himself and the horse physic it. 

 die, he is liable to the owner for the loss. In 

 Deane v. Keatv (s). Lord Ellenborough said, " Had 

 the defendant called in a farrier he would not 

 have been answerable for the medicines the latter 

 might have administered, but when he prescribes 

 himself he assumes a new degree of responsibility, 

 and prescribing so improperly I think he did not 

 exercise that degree of care which might be ex- 

 pected from a prudent man towards his horse, and 

 was in consequence guilty of a breach of the im- 

 plied undertaking he entered into when he hired 

 the horse from the plaintiff." 



(s) 3 Campbell, 4. 



