HOW TO PROCREI) IN CASR OF DISPUTK. 17'3 



rogato tlio scllor, and ask liow long ho. had liad 

 the horso ? whether lio liad over put it in harness ? 

 whether ho ever knew or heard of its kicking in 

 harness before ? and such like questions, which the 

 seller would he obliged to answer on oath, and 

 which would bind him to a certain statement, from 

 which ho could not depart in court, without mate- 

 rially damaging his side of the case before the 

 judge. Interrogatories of this character can bo 

 taken out in the County Court in all cases, how- 

 ever small the sum ; but as the costs of them are 

 only allowed in cases above 20/., it is not likely 

 they will be taken out where the sum in dispute is 

 of lesser value. The officers of the Court will 

 show the complainant how to manage this (sup- 

 posing him not to employ a solicitor), and the 

 desu-ability of obtaining some such clue to the 

 defence or case likely to be set up, is too plain to 

 require further comment. 



In horse cases the evidence will generally bo 

 conflicting, one party directly contradicting the 

 other, not because necessarily one party is telling 

 an untruth, but because from the nature of the 

 case two persons will look at the same animal from 

 a totally different point of view, one thinking much 

 of a good old servant, or a favourite colt, until it 

 has become a perfect quadruped in his eyes ; the 

 other, looking at the money he has pai'ted vnth, 

 and expecting his full money's worth, if not more, 

 for the price he is giving. At the same time there 



