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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
The action was brought for £19, balance due for a mare. 
Mr. A. B. Markham for plaintiff ; Mr. Becke for defendant. 
This was a jury case — Mr. John Rice, foreman ; and Messrs. 
Chas. Danes, Jos. Wright, Thos. Goosey, and Thos. Britten. 
Plaintiff said he had had the mare in his possession twelve 
months. In January last Mr. Chambers came one Monday 
about buying it. Mr. Frisby came with him. [It was 
mutually agreed to admit the purchase on Monday, 26th 
January, at £19 10?. ; the paying of 10.?. deposit; that the 
mare was warranted sound by plaintiff; that the mare was 
delivered at the Crown and Anchor, and fetched away on 
the Monday night, and that the £19 was to be paid the 
following Saturday.] Plaintiff continued — On the Friday 
the horsekeeper at the Crown and Anchor brought the mare 
back to Wootton, saying Chambers said she was not sound, 
and had got a splint under the knee. He (witness) refused 
to take her, and the ostler took her back to Northampton. 
Had sent the mare to the Crown and Anchor by Chambers’s 
order ; he said he would meet him at three o’clock. The 
mare was in constant work while in witness’s possession, 
and was never lame. She had a splint, but it was hardly 
perceptible. On the Saturday met Chambers. He said he 
had returned the mare because he thought she would turn 
lame, though she was not lame then. He said he would not 
keep her, and demanded the 10?. deposit back. Mr. Keenan 
joined them as they were going down Bridge Street to the 
stables. Thought he was a gentleman farrier at the time, 
but he was not. The mare was not strong enough to carry 
witness; was sure she was not strong enough to carry 
Chambers. Sold her because she was not strong enough. 
By Mr. Becke — The Crown and Anchor was where witness 
sent his horses. Mr. Sellers, the landlord, was his father-in- 
law. The ostler looked after witness’s horses there. Never 
knew the mare had a splint before he sold her. Did not 
tell Mr. Brake that he knew she had a splint, but that he 
did not think it was of any consequence. Did not tell 
him that Chambers bought the mare with his eyes open, 
and might have known it. Told Chambers he might have 
caused a splint by riding her. Said it as a matter of 
conversation, not as a declaration. The mare was returned 
on Friday, and on the Saturday Chambers said he should 
not pay for her. The mare was then in the ostler’s possession. 
After Chambers went away the mare was in Sellers’s stable. 
While she was there obtained opinions about her. Mr. 
Merrick and Mr. Garratt, veterinary surgeons, examined 
her there. From the 30th January to 7th March took no 
