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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
Peter Cassiclay , servant to defendant, remembered the horse 
being bought at Drogheda fair, and stated that he was sound 
while in Mr. Bowring’s possession. He brought him to 
Shrewsbury fair on the 8th of August. ; the horse ate and 
drank well, and was quite healthy at the time he was sold. 
He had seen him since he came again into defendant’s hands, 
and he was still sound and had no spavin. 
Mr, George Tharme , horse-dealer, of Wolverhampton, said 
he was present at the interview between Wildblood and 
Bowring, at the Britannia, when Crowe was called in, and he 
gave evidence in corroboration of defendant’s statement. 
Mr, John Madders , horse-dealer, of Hinstock, gave evidence 
to the effect that he had known the horse before and since 
the sale by the defendant, and in his opinion he was sound. 
Mr, John Cone , fishmonger, Mardol, Shrewsbury, said he 
bought the horse at the Britannia sale, at defendant’s request. 
He kept the animal a month within three days, and had used 
him about half a dozen times. 
Mr. Challenor , miller, Hinstock, proved the purchase of the 
horse from the defendant at Market Drayton fair, for £21. 
He had him examined by a farrier named Matthews, who 
declared him to be sound. 
Mr. Henry Crowe , veterinary surgeon, stated that he went 
to the Britannia stables to examine the - horse, at defendant’s 
request, on 22d of September. His attention was particularly 
directed to his hocks, and he could not perceive any signs of 
spavin about them. He believed his hocks to be sound. 
The horse was suffering from strangles and seemed very weak 
in consequence. Strangles was a disease that might come on 
rapidly, although generally it was lurking about the system 
for.some time before it made- its appearance. — In his cross-ex- 
amination, he admitted that the horse went weak with his hind 
legs and knuckled in his fetlocks, but he attributed that to his 
having been worked too young, and not to disease. The 
horse was unfit to work and wanted rest. — By the Judge : 
He considered strangles unsoundness whilst it existed, but not 
afterwards. He thought a horse was better after he had the 
strangles than before. Nearly all horses had the disease some- 
time or other. The swelling under the jaw was a secondary 
and not a primary symptom. He thought if the swel- 
ling had taken place two days after the horse was sold he 
could not be returnable, but if it appeared a day after he 
ought to be taken back. The seeds of disease might be 
lingering in the system for several days before the swelling 
appeared. 
Mr. Ephraim Alfred Friend, veterinary surgeon, residing at 
