VETERINARY J URISPRUDKNCE. 
278 
the horse had been perfectly sound for many years before, and 
up to the very moment when he was disposed of to the present 
plaintiff. He commented with considerable effect on the fact that 
the plaintiff had not produced the man who had charge of the 
horse after he was purchased by Mr. Marriott, and who would 
have been able to give the best, and perhaps the only satisfactory, 
account of the origin of the lameness. 
The following witnesses were called on behalf of the defend- 
ant : — 
Richard Hugill. — I am a brewer at Petersfield, Hampshire, 
and formerly lived at Billingborough, in Lincolnshire. In No- 
vember, 1838, I bought the horse in question, and sold him at 
the April Lincoln Fair, in 1840, to the defendant. I rode him 
nearly every day, and he was never lame in the slightest degree 
while I had him. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant Storks . — I have never seen 
the horse since I sold him. I bought him at four years old from 
a person named Pixon for under £30, and sold him for about 
£35 ; but I do not remember whether I gave a warrant with him 
or not, though he was always a sound horse. A man named 
Pearson sold him for me. I rode him sometimes forty miles a-day. 
Charles Pearson, groom to the last witness, deposed to the 
soundness of the horse while under his care. 
Robert Pearson (a very deaf old man, whose peculiar mode of 
replying to questions amused the court) sold the horse to Harri- 
son at the Lincoln April fair, 1840, for £36, as a sound horse. 
Thomas Raynes, servant to defendant, had the care of the horse, 
and never knew any thing to be the matter with him. 
Robert Coddington Moore, examined by Mr. Andrews. — I am 
a surveyor and land agent, and live about 200 yards from defend- 
ant. I know the bay gelding in question, and have ridden him 
a great number of times: I always believed him to be perfectly 
sound. The day before he went to Horncastle fair I saw him, 
and he was then quite sound. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant Storks . — I ride above 18 stone : 
last time I was weighed I was eighteen stone four pounds. I 
make nothing of riding fifteen miles at a good pace without draw- 
ing bit. 
John Chapman was employed by the defendant to sell the 
horse last August at Horncastle. He was never lame in the least 
degree. 
Upon this evidence, Mr. Serjeant Storks replied, strongly 
urging upon the attention of the jury the usage the horse had 
received for the last few years, especially in carrying the stout 
and jovial surveyor and brewer, who ‘‘made nothing of riding 
