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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
horse was sound on the 19th. The plaintiff left it to the de- 
fendant to buy the horse if it was sound. He did buy it, and cer- 
tified it “ sound in every respect.” Dr. Hill went through the case, 
and laughed at the suggestion to which Mr. Powell was driven — 
that the crystalline lens was dislocated by an accident, about which 
no tittle of evidence had been given. 
His Lordship said the jury had to determine whether the de- 
fendant used reasonable skill and care in the discharge of the 
duty put upon him by the plaintiff. It was not a matter to be 
decided by a hop-skip-and-jump, for the doctors disagreed, and it 
was left for jurymen to weigh their statements and strike the 
balance. As to calling Topham, it would have been conclusive on 
either side, but it was to be presumed that neither side found 
him exactly such a witness as they desired. The learned Judge 
went through the leading points in the evidence, and commented 
with much acumen thereupon. 
The jury, after retiring for a quarter of an hour, found a verdict 
for the defendant. 
BROKEN-WIND. HORSE-COPING. 
Mills v . Hudson. 
In this case the plaintiff, James Mills, a horse-dealer, of 
Bradford, brought an action against the defendants, John and 
George Hudson, carters, of Healey, to recover damages for breach of 
warranty of a grey mare sold by the defendants to the plaintiff at 
Bury Fair, on the 3rd of May last. The sum sought to be reco- 
vered was £21 19^., being £24 paid for the horse, £2 2s. paid to 
a veterinary surgeon, and travelling expenses incurred by the 
plaintiff in making inquiries into the circumstances. Mr. Berry, of 
Bradford, appeared in support of the plaintiff’s case, whilst Mr. 
Charles Roberts was for the defendants. The case, as stated by the 
plaintiff’s attorney, was to the effect that on the day named the 
plaintiff Mills was on his way to Bury Fair when he overtook the 
defendant George Hudson, who is a son of the other defendant, in 
charge of a grey mare. The conversation turned upon the price of 
the animal, when he, Hudson asked £25 for it. When they got into 
the town the plaintiff agreed to buy the mare for £24, and paid the 
money at a cook-shop kept by a person named James Howarth. 
The plaintiff was assured that the animal was right and straight, and 
was told by Hudson that he had worked her four years. The bargain 
concluded, the mare was given into the charge of a man, who started 
homewards with it. The first night it was stabled at Littleborough, 
but the man in charge of it was astonished the next morning to find 
that it had not eaten its food. Proceeding further, the animal was 
attacked with diarrhoea, and though the usual restoratives were 
applied, when about five miles the other side Halifax the animal died. 
A post-mortem examination of the carcase was made by Mr. Joseph 
