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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
brought into a court of justice. The defendant made a fair offer 
that a gentleman and a sportsman should settle the matter between 
the parties; but that was rejected by the plaintiff, who would have 
nothing but veterinarians. After going through the plaintiff’s 
case, and remarking upon its weakness, he tendered to both plain- 
tiff and defendant this advice — don’t warrant ! That was sound 
advice. Tattersall would not warrant a horse for any man ; and 
some veterinarians would not pass any horse as sound. Men and 
horses are said to be alike ; and some men would not pass any 
man sound in body, just as the mad doctor, in a remarkable trial, 
swore that all men were mad. So these Yorkshiremen swore 
that all horses had a chronic disease in the respiratory organs. 
The full sole case proved was, that after exertion the flanks did 
not subside quite as quick as was expected. He remarked with 
severity upon that part of the evidence in which it was said that 
chronic disease could exist without chronic cough. He contended 
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-run steeple-chase. He said that he should shew that when 
the horse was brought back to Chester, he had been examined by 
men of skill and eminence, who would prove that he was perfectly 
sound. He alluded to the day’s hunting with Sir William Stan- 
ley’s hounds, as proving him to be sound. He should confirm 
this evidence by gentlemen who had seen the horse with the 
Cheshire ; and he should also prove that last Chester races this 
horse was sold to Anderson, the great dealer, for one hundred 
guineas, being passed sound in wind. This was at the end of the 
season, when he was not worth so much as he was in October. 
He should prove all this, and he would then be entitled to their 
verdict. 
Mr. Joseph Bretherton . — I am a veterinary surgeon, residing at 
Liverpool; I have been in practice twenty-seven years; I have 
known the horse six years; I examined him on the 8th Jan. last ; 
I had him galloped violently for ten minutes or a* quarter of an 
hour, until he was ready to drop ; he was then sound as to his 
wind ; had he had a chronic disease in October, it would have 
increased; he stood at my stables in March, for seven days, for 
sale ; I never heard him cough ; I never knew a chronic affection 
of the lungs without a cough ; the horse was sold from my stables 
to Mr. Anderson ; he tried him in every form first ; Mr. Anderson 
gave £100 for him ; I declined examining him myself; I got Mr. 
Walton to examine him ; Mr. Anderson paid the money to me. 
Cross-examined : — I don’t know that Mr. Anderson knows Mr. 
Horridge ; 1 have passed the college in London ; I was three 
years with Mr. Lucas, and three at the college ; the horse was 
