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him. I remember him falling lame, and he lias done no work since excepting 
taking gentle exercise. He goes lame particularly on a hard road. He has 
been shod three times since Mr. Walker had him. Cross-examined : The 
horse had a sweat yesterday. I remember Mr. Neale coming over and Mr. 
Walker riding the horse ; he did not say the horse was not lame. I told 
my master that the horse had corns and he replied he knew that. 
Mr. Richard Hudson deposed, I am a veterinary surgeon at Retford. On 
the afternoon of the 5th of November, 1 went over with Mr. Walker to 
Mr. Neale’s to look at the horse. The hocks were curby, but the near one 
was the largest. He had bursal enlargement. I went to see if he would 
stand work. He was not lame, and I said if he had been an older horse he 
might get no worse. I asked Mr. Neale if he could warrant him, and he said 
he could, as he was as sound as any horse in England. On his being brought 
out of the stable, I observed to Mr. Neale that the horse had two odd feet 
— the off foot being the largest. I said he might possibly carry Mr. Walker 
as he was not a hard rider. On the lltli December I was sent for to see the 
horse, and found him lame. There was a general enlargement of both the 
hocks. He could not work, and I ordered him medicine, and applied such 
other remedies as I considered would do him good. I had his shoes taken 
off and then discovered the corns. I bought him in at the sale on the 2d of 
January, and rode him on the 15th of January ; he was then lame on the 
hock. At the first I could not have warranted him sound at any fair in 
England. I saw Mr. Chamberlain, and Mr. Reynolds, of Mansfield, and 
Mr. Hutchinson, of Retford, and Mr. Chapman of Gainsbro.’ — Cross-ex- 
amined : The horse had curby hocks and curbs also. I treated this as a re- 
cent curb and not as a chronic one. It is not proper to gallop a horse that 
is lame. Ten horses out of twenty go lame with corns. Bursal enlarge- 
ments do not always produce lameness. 
Mr. Henry Hutchinson : I am a veterinary surgeon at Retford. I remem- 
ber examining the horse in the presence of the last witness, and found him 
lame on the off hind leg arising from ossific deposit. I have seen the horse 
since and found him lame then. This might have been brought on by too 
much labour, or from being over weighted. When I saw him on the 2d of 
January he was slightly lame, arising, in my opinion, from an old cause, or 
one which had existed before the time when Mr. Walker bought him. The 
corns were also of considerable standing, and I consider corns always as 
being a cause of unsoundness. Cross-examined : I think a horse with 
ossific deposit is not a sound horse ; but a day’s hunting would knock him 
partly got up and make him worse. 
Mr. John Chapman : I am a veterinary surgeon at Gainsbro’. I examined 
this horse on Wednesday last, and found enlargement of the hock and also 
corns on both feet. The horse is unsound, and I think he has been so for 
four or five mouths. I think he had been fired for some disease, and had 
partly got better, and then the hocks had again failed. 
This closed the plaintiff’s case, and Mr. Blackwell then replied, comment- 
ing upon the evidence adduced in its support, and then proceeded to call the 
following evidence. 
Mr. Thomas Neale : I am the defendant in the present action, and am a 
farmer at Scrooby. I remember purchasing the horse in question. I pur- 
chased him the day after the Doncaster Spring meeting last year. I had a 
warranty with him, and gave 72 guineas for him. I afterwards sold him to 
Mr. Maw, of Friday thorpe. The horse happened to have an accident on 
his road to the station, and Mr. Maw refused to take him. He put up a 
bog-spavin, and I had him fired. I afterwards rode and hunted him, and 
never found him lame at all. He never had any corns. 1 remember Mr. 
Walker coming to see him, and I then told him that he had been fired for 
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