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Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
Manchester County Court, July 25th, 1857. 
(. Before R. Brant , Esq.) 
WRIGHT V . DENSON. 
In this case, which was one for pricking two horses in 
shoeing, Mr. Cobbet appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. 
Fennelly, barrister, for the defendant. Mr. Heath was the 
solicitor. The action was brought to recover the sum of 
£\3 10^. for damages and loss sustained by the plaintiff through 
the defendant having lamed two of his horses negligently and 
carelessly by pricking them whilst shoeing them at his forge. 
It was sworn by the plaintiff and his men that the horses 
were pricked, and that blood and urtdte matter were both seen 
to come out of the feet with the nails when the shoes were 
taken off. One was a black mare, and was shod on January 
21st 1854, the other a gray horse, was shod on December 6th, 
1854. 
It was held by the defendant that these horses were not 
pricked ; that the black mare was lamed in consequence of 
having trodden upon a clinker and severely bruised the heel 
of her foot, and that he had attended and cured this lame- 
ness ; his charge for which was £l 125 . 6d. That the gray 
horse was lamed from having got the shoe fast, and in some 
way drawn it off the day after he was shod. That he 
had also attended this case and cured it, and he finds his 
charge for it was 9s. 7 \d., which had been previously allowed. 
He stated that these injuries frequentlyoccurred,and that white 
matter did not occur in such cases ; this he would prove by 
several eminent veterinary surgeons. He had been in business 
thirty^ years, and employed none but competent and careful 
men. He produced his books, and stated that he never made 
any charge or entry for dressing or attending any horses 
when their lameness arose from being pricked at his forge, 
and he was certain these were not cases of pricking or they 
would not have been entered in his book, and that no other 
lame horses had occurred belonging to the plaintiff. 
James Harrison examined — Is a shoeing-smith ; had worked 
for the defendant five years; remembers the black mare 
coming with a clinker in her foot ; she was very lame ; the 
