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is to give publicity to this novel action, in order that credulous 
waggoners may be made acquainted with the dangers that 
beset them if they should persist in giving poisonous sub- 
stances to their masters’ horses. The laws of equity hold 
them responsible for poisoning horses ignorantly, while our 
criminal code awards them severe punishment if they should 
do it maliciously. Would it not be far better for waggoners 
if they would obey their masters, and learn the simple fact 
of keeping horses in better working condition by good food 
and attention, than for them to imagine that they can 
improve condition by disordering the horses* stomachs and 
bowels with poisonous substances ? 
Dear Sir, 
Yours faithfully, 
Saml. Brown. 
Melton Mowbray; April 14 , 1854 . 
county court, skipton, April 7, 1854. 
( Before Edward Cooke , Esq., Judge) 
WARD V. SMITH. 
Mr. Brown , of Skipton, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. 
Gaunt , of Bradford, for the defendant. 
Mr. Brown stated the plaintiff’s case. The plaintiff resides 
at Carlton near Skipton, and the defendant at Bradford. 
The action is brought for the breach of warranty of a cow, 
purchased on the 28th of January last, by the plaintiff of the 
defendant, which had been so bought unseen on the strength 
of defendant’s representations that she was all right and 
would do plaintiff some good. The cow was delivered on the 
51 st of January last to the plaintiff, at Cononley, about one 
mile and a half from Carlton, having been brought to that 
place by railway ; the plaintiff had great difficulty in driving 
the cow to Carlton, she being unable to walk ; on the plain- 
tiff paying for the cow the same night, he remarked to de- 
fendant the difficulty he had in driving her, when defendant 
said she was poor and weak. 
The plaintiff kept the cow well, but she never throve after 
he got her. 
On the 4th March the plaintiff wrote defendant respecting 
the cow; the defendant came to plaintiff’s on the 10th 
