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sands of cases of it in twenty-five years’ practice ; does not 
think that more than one case in five is cured, in any stage 
of the disease, and under the most judicious treatment. 
To the Court. — There are two diseases vulgarly called farcy 
— viz. water farcy and button farcy ; they are entirely dif- 
ferent in their nature ; the former is easily cured ; the latter 
often baffles the best skill in veterinary science. 
To a Juror. — Does not think glanders can be cured; has 
heard of horses being cured of glanders ; has cured horses of 
diseases very much resembling glanders ; has known horses 
ordered to be destroyed as glandered, cured of the disease ; 
it was not glanders at all ; never knew a horse ulcerated in 
the (septum) partition of the nostrils, having the other symp- 
toms of chronic glanders, cured. 
The case for the plaintiff then closed. 
Mr. Joy , Q.C., then proceeded to address the jury on behalf 
of the defendant. The plaintiff, he said, had closed his case, 
without having told them any more about the old grey horse 
that had died in his stables about a month before he pur- 
chased the horse from the defendant; but he (Mr. Joy) 
suspected there was more about the horse than had been 
stated. Why was not that horse skinned? That was a 
singular fact, but no person had been called to tell them 
anything about it. Mr. Joy then went on to say, he was 
sure every man on the jury regretted that tw T o gentlemen, 
like the plaintiff and defendant, were placed in a hostile po- 
sition to each other in a court of law, and that was the more 
to be regretted, that Mr. Aiken was the mutual friend of 
both, and would undoubtedly have been produced as witness 
by the defendant, had he not been called on the part of the 
plaintiff. Mr. Joy then said, that before he went further in 
the case, he submitted that the defendant was entitled to a 
non-suit in point of law, because the declaration stated that 
the horse was warranted, whereas the evidence, at the very 
utmost, only showed that Mr. Hunter said that the horse was 
only either sound, or was all right, as far as he knew. 
His Lordship thought there was a sufficient case to go to 
the jury ; but said he would take a note of the objection. 
Mr. Joy then proceeded with his address. He hoped that, 
whatever would be the result of the present case, no perma- 
nent interruption of the kindly feelings which had always 
subsisted between the plaintiff and the defendant would take 
place. The position in which Mr. Hunter was in the present 
action, was different from that of Mr. Magennis. It was 
open for Mr. Magennis to institute legal proceedings against 
the defendant at any time he pleased. If he had been under 
