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MISCELLANEA. 
Honourable LIorse-dealing. 
On Wednesday last, Messrs. Graham and Sanderson, railway- 
contractors here, bought a bay gelding from Mr. Peter Piddie, 
horse-dealer, Edinburgh, warranted sound, &c. This was after- 
wards suspected not to be the case. I was sent for to examine, 
and gave certificate of unsoundness on Saturday, which was in- 
closed in a letter from Mr. Sanderson, and sent to Edinburgh by a 
servant, when Mr. P. immediately took the horse, and returned 
the money — £33. 
This is the first case of the kind that ever occurred in my 
practice (and of these cases I have had a considerable number) ; 
but were horse-clealers to act in this straight-forward and honour- 
able way, it would save a great deal of tedious and unnecessary 
litigation, a great deal of ill-will among parties, and save also 
that unnecessary difference of opinion at present so disgraceful, 
and which makes our profession a mock and a by- word, and in 
many cases makes a buyer often put up with the cheat he may 
have got, rather than risk his case in the hands of a law-agent, 
where’his witnesses necessarily must be veterinary surgeons, each 
giving a different opinion on his case. 
As this is rather a rare case, please give it a corner in The 
VETERINARIAN : it may, perhaps, stimulate others to act in the 
same honourable manner. 
Your most obedient servant, 
J. Horsburgh, VS. 
Dalkeith, 
15 April, 1846. 
William Woodhouse v. Thomas Everatt. 
This was an action on the warranty of a horse. 
Mr. Humfrey, Q. C., and Mr. Wildman, conducted the plaintiff’s 
case; Mr. Whitehurst, Q. C., and Mr. Willmore appeared as 
counsel for the defendant. 
The plaintiff is a horse-dealer, and the defendant a farmer, at 
Scotton, Yorkshire. The plaintiff was riding with a witness 
(Ledger) in the neighbourhood of Scotton, on the day after Kirton 
fair, early in December 1844, and met the defendant, who had 
with him the horse in question, a very fine looking animal, of the 
