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5. That hot shoeing, methodically practised, is nowise hurtful, 
and that the burning necessary to seat the shoe has no effect in 
producing contraction of the foot. 
6. That the latter method, executed by a workman of ordinary 
power, will tend more to the conservation of the horn of the hoof 
and the rectitude of the aplombs . 
7. Lastly, that hot shoeing, with much less superintendence and 
artistic skill, will yield better results under the threefold respect 
of duration, security of shoe, and conservation of the hoof. 
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County Court, Halifax. 
Horse Case. 
YESTERDAY, before his honour, James Stansfield, Esq., judge, 
a disputed case of the soundness of a horse, and a warrant arising 
out of it, came on for trial and adjudication. The plaintiff was Mr. 
George Williamson, of Leeds, horse-dealer, for whom John Arthur 
Ikin, Esq., town clerk of Leeds, appeared ; and the defendant was 
Bernard Hartley, Esq., merchant, of Thorn Tree, Halifax, on 
whose behalf Mr. J. H. Mitchell was retained. The action was 
for £19.. 19s., difference of the price between its cost and what it 
sold for, with the charge for keep of the horse from the time of 
purchase to the time of sale. Several parties interested in horse- 
flesh were present in court. 
Mr. Ikin opened the case with a plain statement of the facts he 
proposed to establish, and called 
George Williamson, who said that he was in treaty with Mrs. 
Bolland for this horse, subject to Mr. Dray’s approval, for £48. 
Dray examined the horse. I gave a certificate of unsoundness. 
I sent the horse to Young’s livery stables, and paid him £5. .5s, 
I sent him on the 21st May. I paid the auction and the printer. 
The horse sold for £27. 
Cross-examined . — There might be twenty bidders at the sale. 
In my judgment it was a fair open sale. It was to be sold at any 
price. It might have gone for £5. I preferred sending the horse 
to Young’s to bringing him to Halifax. I have been five or six 
years in trade. I have bought some scores of horses. I first saw 
the horse at Northallerton. I believe he asked me some £70 or 
