U''2 IIOltSE "NVAKUANTY. 



ciiArTEn X. 



Trow TO PROCEKn IN CASE OF DISPTTK IN A 

 HOUSE DEAI,. 



PRocKniRE IN THE CouNTY CouKT. — Tlio pre- 

 ceding chapters of this work have been devoted to 

 an exi)Osition of the law respecting the wan-anty 

 of liorses. It is now proposed shortly to state the 

 hest method to proceed in County Com-ts, where a 

 person having bought a horse afterwards finds it 

 not up to the warranty given, or to the representa- 

 tions made respecting it. If the horse which has 

 been purchased is very valuable, the probabilities 

 are that some solicitor will be employed for the 

 person disputing tlie bai'gain, and, in that case, 

 most likely tlie litigation will take i)lacG in the 

 superior courts ; but as one of the great sources of 

 litigation in rural county courts are disputes re- 

 specting horses of a comi)aratively small value, it 

 is hoped that this chaj)ter may bo of use. 



If, then, a person has bought a horse for any 

 sum of money less than 5U/. — which is the highest 

 sum that in a disjjute of this kind can be referred 

 to a county court — and, when this horee was sold 

 to him, was sold with a warranty, but on insjjec- 

 tion and trial has been found not to bo of the 



