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ON CATARACT—PALMER V. GREVILLE. 
rested. On the Sunday following I met the detendant’s attor¬ 
ney who informed me that Mr. Leigh and his partner, both 
veterinary surgeons, had examined her on the intermediate 
Friday and that Mr. Leigh still said she was unsound in the off 
eye, and observed that he thought I had better re-examine her. 
On the Tuesday morning following, the mare was brought to 
Bristol for my re-examination, when I saw her and Mr. Bradford 
the plaintiff’s attorney. The result of my re-examination was a 
repetition of my former declaration, that the eyes were in perfect 
health and free from speck of any kind, and from any indication 
of previous disease: on this I was immediately subpoenaed as a 
witness on the trial. . . , , , 
From this time, as a matter of course, I felt so far interested 
in the cause as to wish proper steps to be taken to prove the 
soundness of the eyes; and with that view I urged on the 
plaintiffs attorney the almost paramount necessity of taking the 
mare to Taunton to be her own witness, as I was the only vete¬ 
rinary surgeon for the plaintiff, and had reason to believe there 
would be two on the other side, whose evidence would be diame¬ 
trically opposed to mine; and accordingly the mare was taken, to 
be ready at the door of the court at the time of trial. 
On her arrival at Taunton, an effort w T as made by the de¬ 
fendant, or the person who acted for him, to have her eyes 
examined by Mr. Barrett, a veterinary surgeon of that place; 
but I had requested Mr. Bradford not to allow him to examine 
the eyes so long as he could communicate with the other me¬ 
dical witness for defendant previous to giving evidence; and 
accordingly he was not allowed to see them. . 
On my appearance in the witness box, I again stated in evi¬ 
dence that the mare’s eyes were in the most perfect health, and 
perfectly free from speck or blemish of any kind ; when Mr. Ser¬ 
geant Bompas, the leading counsel for the defendant, told the 
fudge, that as sure as Mr. Leigh was called as a witness in a 
horse cause, so sure was I to be called as a witness to oppose 
his evidence ; that, with a view to obtain a right decision, his 
client had used every means to obtain an examination of the 
mare’s eyes by Mr. Barrett, but that it was obstinately refused : 
on which Mr. Sergeant \Vilde told the Judge that the mare 
was at the door of the court, brought there for the express 
purpose of being her own witness ; and that, if his Lordship 
would order her into court, she should immediately appear* 
The Judge then directed me to leave the box, and accompany 
Mr* Barrett to. examine her eyes; and that it Mr. Barrett 
imagined that he saw any speck, he must point it out to me- 
We proceeded together for that purpose : and when Mr. Bairett 
