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and horse dealer, and stated that, the horse, not being by any 
means what he was represented to have been, was returned to the 
plaintiff at Limerick, who refused to accept him. He was then 
put up at a livery-stable, and sold, some time after, for the sum 
of £45. He would call several veterinary surgeons, who would 
give a strange and almost incredible account of the defects of 
this horse, and then he might safely appeal to them whether the 
sum demanded by the plaintiff should be paid. He would call his 
witnesses : — 
Henry Mitchell Smyth , Esq., was brother to the defendant: 
had heard of this horse, and went to Mr. Cripps’s stables to look 
at him, for his brother wanted to purchase. The horse was out 
at exercise, and he waited until he came in. He walked round 
the horse and looked him over, and said that he was a nice, 
good-looking horse. He asked Mr. Cripps to let him get on him 
and ride him. Mr. Cripps replied that the horse had got an over- 
reach, but that when he was well he might ride him. Mr. Cripps 
said that the horse was six years old, got by Irishman, and that 
he would warrant him sound ; but was willing to submit him to 
the opinion of a veterinary surgeon. Witness replied, that if he 
was dealing for himself he should be perfectly satisfied ; but he 
was commissioned by his brother to look for a horse, and he 
thought this would suit him. In the meantime the horse had 
been put into the stable. The witness asked the servant to turn 
the horse round, that he might examine his mouth. He was 
turned round, but the horse would not let him open his mouth. 
Mr. Cripps said that the horse, probably, imagined that they 
were about to give him physic. He (Mr. Cripps) would open 
the mouth, and did so ; and observed, that the horse was but six 
years old. The witness remarked, that these were the oldest 
six-year-old teeth he had ever looked at. Mr. Cripps asked 
£200 for him. Witness said that the price was too much, but 
he would write to his brother if he would warrant him sound. 
Mr. Cripps said that he was a sound and good constitutioned 
horse. He wrote to his brother; a correspondence commenced 
between his brother and Mr. Cripps. He never saw the horse 
hunted ; he never saw him out of the stable again ; but the re- 
sult was, that his brother bought the horse. 
Patrick Anglim is a helper in Conway’s livery stables, in Cork. 
He has been always about horses. He was sent for to Paris’s 
yard to take charge of a valuable horse to Cork. He got on his 
back and rode him out, and he went very well for a short time, 
and then the horse suddenly stopped. He turned back to Mr. 
Cripps’s stable with him ; but Mr. Cripps said that, having once 
left his stable, he should never enter it again. He told Mr. 
