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amined the horse last week. A horse with this disease may go 
apparently sound after an hour or two’s exercise. In his present 
state I should say the horse is not worth more than about c£T0. 
If the complaint had been of recent origin, there must have been 
heat at the time of the examination by the former witness ; but 
the situation would not admit of the discovery of the swelling 
which usually accompanies inflammation. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Byles. — Lameness in the coffin joint 
is often the result of a sudden strain, by which a diseased action 
is set up, resulting eventually in incurable lameness. It may 
arise from a sudden knock or concussion, or from rapid and 
overstrained motion. The inflammation now existing in the 
horse’s foot is of a chronic character; but I cannot take upon 
myself to say how long it has existed. Supposing an accident 
to have caused the inflammation, lameness would immediately 
have supervened, and might or might not be curable, and would 
be perpetual or intermittent according to circumstances. 
Re-examined by Mr. Gunning. — If the lameness had arisen 
from an accident I think the inflammation must have been dis- 
covered by external heat at an examination four days after the 
accident. Travelling might have aggravated the lameness ; but 
if no heat were perceptible, I do not think the cause of lameness 
could have originated after the sale. 
The writ served upon Saunderson on the 16th Sept. 1841, in 
the action Marriott v. Saunderson, was put in. 
Mr. C. H. Cooper. — I am attorney for the plaintiff 1 , and was 
concerned for him in the action brought against him by Mr. 
Marriott. Immediately on pleading there was g judge’s 
order to stay proceedings on payment of debt and costs. Mr. 
Marriott’s costs amounted to £11 9s. and* Saunderson’s to 
18s. lOd. On the 3 1st of January 1 wrote to the now de- 
fendant on the subject of this action. I could not write earlier 
because 1 had not his address. 
Godfrey Nunn proved that the horse had been standing in 
plaintiff’s stable ever since he came from Essex in September, 
and that 10s per week was a fair sum for his keep. 
On cross-examination he said, Stourbridge Fair was held after 
the return of the horse, and that there is a horse market in Cam- 
bridge every week. 
Mr. Andrews then addressed the jury on behalf of the defend- 
ant, in an ingenious speech of some length. The learned gentle- 
man contended, that even on the evidence adduced by the other 
side, it was quite clear that the lameness originated after the sale, 
during the journey from Horncastle to Essex: in support of that 
view of the case, he would call witnesses who would prove that 
