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Mr. Phillips stated the case to the jury, and called upon 
them to carefully listen to the evidence he should produce, 
feeling convinced that they would consider it sufficient to 
warrant them in returning a verdict for the plaintiff. He 
contended that the injury to the horse must have resulted 
from some negligence or default on the part of the Company, 
and that it was ridiculous to suppose that the injury could be 
inflicted by the horse striking its head against a flat surface, 
for such a blow would cause a contused wound. 
The evidence was then taken, the facts of which were as fol- 
lows: On the 18th of June, Mr. Edward Rubbins, of Baston, 
near Market Deeping, purchased a black-brown horse of Mr. 
Edward Gething, horse-dealer, of Hawton, near Newark, for 
£70, and on the 21st it was sent by railway from Newark to 
Tallington, 
William Hercock , groom to Mr. Gething, rode the 
animal from Hawton to Newark, and bore testimony to 
the sound state of the animal when he delivered it to John 
Wilkinson, a stable-keeper in Mr. Gething’s employ at 
Newark. 
Wilkinson wiped down the horse before it was put into 
the box, and also combed the lock just above the forehead : 
he did not observe there was anything the matter with the 
animal. 
Mr. George Brewster , of Staunton Grange, Notts, saw the 
horse Hercock was riding, and looked at it particularly : he 
also did not notice any injury on the forehead. 
Henry Wagner , foreman porter to the Great Northern 
Railway Company at Newark, received the horse from 
Wilkinson to go by the three o’clock train, and he led him 
into the box : the animal was perfectly quiet, and he was 
certain that no accident occurred in getting it in. He put 
the slip over its head, but he did not observe that its forehead 
was injured. The box in which the horse in question was 
put had come from Leeds ; and, as is customary, it was care- 
fully examined before the animal was put into it. 
Henry Conington , groom to Mr. Rubbins, went to Tallington 
on the 21st of June, for two horses belonging to his master, 
which had been sent in separate boxes. Whilst taking the 
black-brown horse out, Joyce, a railway porter, directed his 
attention to some spots of blood on the padding under the 
horse’s head; and when the animal was brought out of the 
box Conington observed a wound on the forehead, and from 
it a small portion of blood was issuing. 
Mr. Jesse Eastwood, who was clerk in charge at Tallington 
at that time, with the porter, examined the box, and beat the 
