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was aware of. His flock was examined, and it was found to be 
affected. The disease was quite apparent to the deputation, one of 
whom told defendant he must be a fool not to know of it. In the 
month of June two labourers who were working in the pastures 
observed that a sheep marked with the letter D had something the 
matter with it, and on examination they found it had the scab. A 
lad named Hewson, who lived with the defendant from February to 
May, 1870, said he fetched some sheep in March or April, from 
another farm to the defendant’s, and that two of these sheep did not 
seem in good condition. He had a difficulty to get them along the 
road. Some of the wool was off one or two of them, and was dang- 
ling down. He further stated that he held several sheep two or 
three times whilst his master dressed them with something out of a 
bottle. This would be in March or April, after he had fetched the 
new sheep. Where the sheep were dressed, which was on the shoul- 
ders and between the forelegs, was, he said, “ all scurvy-like,” and 
the wool was off. He did not know what his master was dressing 
them for. He did not see any maggots or lice. He had seen mag- 
gots in sheep. He further gave evidence that some time after he left 
his master’s service defendant went to him and asked him whether 
Mr. Woolliscroft (one of the farmers who had sheep on the pasture) 
had been to him, and what he had told him. He said he had, and 
that he told him he could remember him (defendant) dressing some 
sheep with stuff from a bottle whilst he had held them. Defendant 
said he could not remember dressing any unless it was one for mag- 
gots, and then told the boy he had better have nothing to do with it 
as he had got witnesses to swear “again it,” or him (he would not 
be sure which). The boy said he should state what he had told Mr. 
Woolliscroft. 
On the previous hearing of the case His Honour remarked 
that he never knew a witness give evidence more carefully than 
this boy had done, and he never knew one more anxious than he 
was to state not one atom more than the truth, and the solicitor on 
the opposite side admitted that this was so. The whole of the 
farmers who had placed sheep upon the pasture swore positively 
that their flocks were sound and free from all disease when placed 
upon the pasture, in May, 1870. 
At the hearing on Friday Mr. King don, who appeared for the 
plaintiff, pointed out that at the hearing of the case in February 
the defendant said that what he dressed his sheep for, both before 
they went to the pasture and whilst they were there, was for mag- 
gots, which, defendant said broke out several times during the 
summer, after they had been cured. Now it was said the dressing 
was for red lice. The defendant emphatically denied that any of his 
sheep were affected with scab when placed upon the pasture, and 
said he was not aware he had the disease on his farm at home until 
it was pointed out to him by Mr. Hall and others, in the month of 
October. 
His Honour, in summing up to the jury, remarked that mere 
suspicion would not be sufficient to justify them in finding a verdict 
