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is sure that he is a vicious horse. He was lame in the near fore 
leg; 
T. Watmore , brother to the plaintiff, lives in Surrey : went 
with his brother to Barnet, and saw the horse—saw him ridden : 
he was restive; he shewed a great deal of vice. Communicated 
with his brother, and, in consequence, made Tawney an offer 
that he should retain the horse at £100. Tawney refused : the 
horse was unfit to ride.—Notices were then read from the plain¬ 
tiff to the defendant, complaining that he had not replied to for¬ 
mer applications, and informing him that the horse would be sent 
to London, and placed there in a livery stable. 
Another letter was read, stating that the horse had been a 
certain period at these stables, and that the plaintiff should pro¬ 
ceed to sell him. 
J. Parish , the son of the livery-stable-keeper to whom the 
horse had been sent, remembers the horse well; he was with 
them ten weeks. Rode him out four times; was obliged to lead 
him out of the yard into the street before he could mount him ; 
he would then go very well, perhaps for four hundred or five 
hundred yards, and then rear and sidle against a wall: would 
seldom go the way he wished him, but had a decided will of his 
own. Once he did mount him in the yard, but he was obliged to 
get off and lead him into the street before he could get him on. 
Jalland, the farrier, was sent to examine the horse : Jalland is 
since dead. He (witness) never saw any lameness. 
Cross-examined .—The horse stood idle in the stable ; he would 
have ridden him out for exercise if he could. When he got him 
out, he rode him as far as the horse chose to go, and then re¬ 
turned, for he could not get any farther. 
Re-examined .—He wanted to go round different corners, and 
reared up if prevented. He took him just about where he lived, 
and when he turned homeward the horse would do very well, for 
he was doing as he liked, and going home. 
G. Parish , brother to the preceding witness, rode the horse 
three times; he went just such way as he thought proper: if 
thwarted, would rear up and jump, and endeavour to throw him. 
The Counsel for the defendant asked, If the horse was lame 
and restive, how came he to be bought at a high price by a 
dealer, who ought to know something about a horse, and sold 
by him to another dealer at an advanced price ? Could any 
man of common sense believe that this would be the case ? The 
truth of it was, that he was a fine horse, and they thought they 
should get a fine price for him, and they had kept him idle and 
full of corn, and made him just what every horse of spirit, every 
horse worth having, would have been ; and then, disappointed in 
their speculation, they wanted to return him. As for the lame- 
