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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
We thank Mr. Barlow for his account of th q present epidemic 
among cattle. So far as we have had the opportunity of examina- 
tion, his description of it is accurate : may we solicit our friends to 
favour us with their account of it. It is very materially different 
from that the history of which we have been attempting in the 
present Number. Any errors that we have committed with re- 
gard to the epidemic of 1840 we shall be most happy to be 
enabled to correct. 
We would once more remind our readers, that the subscription 
to the testimonial to Mr. Shaw, the Editor of the Mark-lane 
Gazette, and Farmer’s Magazine, will speedily close. A more 
ardent friend to the veterinary profession does not exist. We 
shall be most proud to be the means by which any contribu- 
tions to his testimonial may be conveyed to the Metropolitan 
Committee. Y. 
VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
Orbell v . W'almsley. 
This was an action upon the warranty of a horse purchased 
by the plaintiff, who is an extensive horse dealer at Romford 
from the defendant, a large farmer at Bridlington, in Yorkshire. 
Mr. Earle, with Mr. Petersdorff, was for the plaintiff, and 
Mr. Whitehurst for the defendant. 
It appeared that the animal in question, which was described 
as a grey horse of a remarkably showy description, was pur- 
chased by the plaintiff from the defendant, with several others, 
on the 17th of August last, for £55, under a written warranty 
of soundness, the horse never having been worked or used before 
the purchase. In the course of a few days after the arrival of 
the horse at Romford he was sold by the plaintiff to Mr. Dixon, 
with a warranty, for £85, and in a few days Mr. Dixon reported 
that the animal was unsound, and desired to return him. Upon 
the suggestion of the plaintiff, Mr. Dixon had the horse taken to 
the Veterinary College, at Camden Town, where he was carefully 
examined on the 7th September, and Mr. Spooner, one of the 
Professors of that establishment, declared that the horse exhibited 
a very decided case of bone spavin, which would produce lame- 
ness whenever he was worked hard. The plaintiff communi- 
