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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
Joseph Marshall Clayworth : I am a veterinary surgeon, and 
served in that capacity in the Abyssinian War ; I keep the reposi- 
tory at Birmingham ; on Monday, the 1st May, Mr. Potter, with 
Marlow, and Penstone, came to me and said they wished to return 
the cob ; I said I could not take it on plaintiff's certificate, as he 
was not a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and 
I was sorry to do so ; it is my practice not to receive a certificate 
except from a member of the College ; when I refused to take the 
certificate they said, “ If he is not a veterinary surgeon, what do 
you call him, a quack or a cowleech ?" I said, “ You can call 
him what you like, I know that he is not a member of the Royal 
College." On the 22nd May I was at Rotterdam, and knew 
nothing about the correspondence; on the day I returned home 
I was served with a writ; it was on the 26th May that I 
returned. 
William Marshall : I am foreman of the repository yard ; I 
remember two gentlemen coming to the repository ; I heard them 
ask Clayworth to return the money for the cob ; he said he could 
not, as they were not the men who bought the cob, and that he 
could not take plaintiff's certificate, as he was not a member of 
the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and he was sorry that 
he could not ; the men were very excited. 
Mr. Joseph Clayworth , sen. : I am a veterinary surgeon, and 
father of the defendant ; I have been in business forty years ; 
the plaintiff was at Birmingham when I took to the business of 
the late Mr. Waters; the plaintiff was there, and remained from 
February to August ; I did not know that the plaintiff was not a 
member of the College until after he left ; I was at the repository 
on the Monday when Marlow came, and I heard the conversation ; 
my son said he could not take the cob in as plaintiff was not a 
member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and that 
his employers would not be satisfied with his mode of conducting 
his business ; he was sorry to reject the certificate for his own 
defence. 
John Potter : I purchased the dun cob at the sale ; on the 
Monday morning after the sale I met Marlow, and accompanied 
him to the repository ; we saw the defendant ; Pitt was not 
there; the defendant said he could not take the cob back on 
Pitt's certificate as he was not a member of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons ; I heard one say “ What do you reckon him, 
a quack or a cowleech ?" the defendant said they could call Pitt 
what they liked, but he would not. 
James Loveridge : I am a farmer near Birmingham ; I re- 
member some persons coming to the repository about a dun cob ; 
I heard a conversation in the office; the first I heard was, “What 
do you call him ; do you call him an impostor, a cowleech, or 
