VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
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SHREWSBURY COUNTY COURT. 
Spavin or no Spavin. 
WILDBLOOD V. BOWRING. 
The following were summoned as a jury to try this cause : 
Mr. Evan Davies, Mr. John Groves, Mr. S. Scoltock, Mr. 
Henry Bevan, and Mr. Daniel Pritchard. Mr. Smallwood 
appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. B. H. Smallwood for the 
defendant. The plaintiff was Mr. Richard Wildblood, of 
Bicton Villa, near this town ; and the defendant, Mr. Robert 
Bowring, of Hinstock, in this county. The action was 
brought to recover £13 1 5s. 6d. as compensation in damages 
for the injury the plaintiff had sustained by the purchase of 
an unsound horse from the defendant, with which a written 
warranty had been given. Mr. B. H. Smallwood, on the 
part of the defendant, admitted the warranty ; and also that 
defendant had received a letter from plaintiff, in which was 
enclosed a certificate from Mr. Litt, veterinary surgeon. 
Mr. Smallwood briefly stated the facts of the case to the 
jury, w’hich wfill be found detailed in the evidence. 
The Plaintiff said : On the 8th of August last I attended 
Shrewsbury fair, held in the Smithfield, in company with Mr. 
Henry Cooke. I saw 7 the defendant there. I had a conver- 
sation with him about a grey gelding. Defendant said he 
would warrant him perfectly sound, and I afterwards pur- 
chased the horse for £23 from that warranty. I took the 
horse to the Bull’s Head stables, and afterwards to the 
Britannia stables, where I had him harnessed, and then pro- 
ceeded to drive him home, accompanied by Mr. Cooke. 
When on the Welsh bridge I perceived the horse a little 
lame, and on reaching the Mount I found that Re continued 
lame. Mr. Cooke got out of the gig to see if a stone had 
got in his foot, but finding none we proceeded on home at 
the rate of four or five miles an hour. At the end of the 
journey the animal appeared very much fatigued. I gave 
him to a servant named John Evans. Next morning 1 saw 
the horse in the stable, and he appeared very dull, and had 
lumps under his jaw; he seemed to be lame on the near hind 
leg, and there was a little swelling on the hock. The horse 
was not in a fit state to do work. I then sent for Mr. Litt, 
who came on the day following (the 10th) and examined the 
horse in my presence. The horse got worse, and on Friday 
(the 11th) I sent my servant with the horse to Mr. Litt, wdio 
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