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to other veterinary surgeons, who confirmed the opinion of Mr. 
Yates, that he had a chronic disease in the air-passages, constituting 
thick breathing. The additional certificate was forwarded to the 
defendant. Some correspondence took place, which ended in the 
sale of the horse for £56, bought in on behalf of the defendant, 
which sum was reduced by expenses to £48, and it was for the 
difference between the purchase-money and that sum that the action 
was brought. 
These facts being proved, 
Mr. Chilton , for the defendant, contended that no sufficient dis- 
ease had been proved to exist to warrant the charge of unsound- 
ness, and also that the price of the horse was not proved, as the two 
were sold for £210 ; the other horse being good enough to run 
fourth in a fast steeple chase. 
After several witnesses had been called, Mr. Townsend replied. 
The learned Judge went minutely through the evidence. Verdict 
for the plaintiff. Damages £101. .5s. 
Morning Chronicle , April 10/4. 
Mathews v . Parker. 
Mr. Godson and Mr. Cripps were counsel for the plaintiff, and 
Mr. Whateley and Mr. Cooke for the defendant. 
This was a regular “ horse cause,” which occupied the court for 
four hours. The plaintiff is a well-known agriculturist and land 
agent, residing near Cirencester ; the defendant a horse-dealer at 
Coventry. In May, 1846, the plaintiff bought of defendant at 
Stow fair a bay horse, with a warranty of soundness. On the day 
after its arrival at Cirencester it exhibited symptoms of lameness, 
which increased until June 23d, when it was examined by an 
experienced veterinary surgeon, who pronounced the animal to 
have navicular disease in both the fore feet, of which fact notice 
was forwarded to the defendant, who attended at Cirencester 
market, and bought the horse at an auction, where it was sold as 
a lame horse. 
For the defence, it was proved that on the same evening of the 
re-purchase the horse travelled to Coventry, a distance of sixty 
miles; that it was sold within a few days to Mr. Holland, the 
contractor for the Coventry water works, who used it regularly for 
six months at Newbold, near Rugby, and who still possessed him. 
These subsequent owners, and also the persons who had the horse 
before the defendant purchased it, proved that the horse had never 
been afflicted with lameness, and was sound at this time — an 
