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HORSE CAUSE. 
J, T. EDMONDS V. DOBSON. 
Mr. Serjeant Wilde stated, that this was an action brought to 
recover a sum of £80, on the breach of a warranty of a hoi*se. 
The plaintiff was a surgeon, living in Argyle-street, and the de¬ 
fendant had been a Quartermaster in the 1st Regiment of Horse 
Guards, but had now quitted that regiment. The plaintiff had 
purchased the horse in question under a warranty of soundness; 
but afterwards finding that there was an enlargement of the bones 
of the foot, the horse was sent to the Veterinary College, and, on 
Mr. SewelFs opinion that it was unsound, it was returned. 
Mr. Pyle .—I am a clerk in the house of Messrs. Cox and 
Greenwood, who are agents for the defendant: this paper is in 
his hand-writing ; the paper is dated 15th May, 1828, and war¬ 
ranted the horse in question, a brown gelding, sound and quiet. 
James Franks .—I am in the service of the plaintiff; I remem¬ 
ber the horse that my master bought of the defendant; I saw it 
first in Argyle-street, and afterwards saw it at the defendant’s 
stables at the barracks. I saw the defendant; he asked me what 
the plaintiff said about the horse, and what the gentlemen at the 
college said about it. I said, that they had told him he need not 
have sent it there on account of its broken knees, for anybody 
could see they were broken. 
Cross-examined.—I never said that my master had twenty 
horses in a month. 
Mr. Sewell .—I examined this horse on the 16th of May; it 
was unsound, in consequence of an ossification of the cartilages 
of the heel. I found no other unsoundness to complain of: 
it had what farriers call false ringbones. That renders a horse 
decidedly unsound. The conversion of the cartilage into bone 
constitutes unsoundness: that > unsoundness is genemlly of veiy 
gradual growth, but it may have been occasioned by some very 
powerful exertion within a short time. The horse’s knees were 
broken. 
By the Chief Justice .—^The animal is never afteru ards a sound 
horse: over exertion will produce inflammation, and, when that 
subsides, it becomes bone. 
Mr. John Lythe (of the Horse-Bazaar), a veterinary surgeon, 
confirmed the evidence of Mr. Sewell: he had seen the horse only 
this morning. 
This was the plaintiff’s case. 
