501 
GERMAN VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE, 
Sheep. 
Account of an Action brought by Herr (Mr.) T. against 
Dr. H. to recover the Value of some Sheep infected 
WITH SEVERE DISEASE IN THE CLEFT OF THE FEET. 
Communicated hy PROFESSOR Hertwig. 
[As illustrative of the diseases of sheep on the continent, as de¬ 
scriptive of a disease now prevailing among our British sheep, 
and as giving us some idea of the state of veterinary jurispru¬ 
dence on this part of the continent, the following record by 
Professor Hertwig may not be unacceptable.] 
A COMPLAINT broke out in the sheepfold of the plaintiff, Herr 
T., towards the end of the year 1827, which gradually spread 
itself throughout the whole flock, and he had never been able to 
get rid of it. His flock was infected by the sheep of Herr G., 
a shepherd. This man appears formerly to have been in the ser¬ 
vice of a wealthy farmer at A—, but came to Urbani in 1824, 
and was engaged by the plaintiff. He had, at that time, one-and- 
twenty sheep of his own, which were left at A—, and which he 
frequently requested the plaintiff to purchase. But as this disease 
in the feet of sheep was then very prevalent in A—, the plaintiff 
declined purchasing, or suffering them to be brought to his farm, 
until he received a warranty from Dr. H., the provincial medical 
superintendent, asserting that they were perfectly sound. 
This account given by the plaintiff does not entirely agree with 
the statement of G., who persists that he first proposed the draw¬ 
ing up of the warranty and that Herr T., never once expressed a 
wish to have it. In November, 1824, G. requested the plaintiff 
to examine his sheep. Herr T. went, therefore, on the 26th of 
November, 1824, accompanied by a veterinary surgeon named L., 
to whom he gave the warranty which he had received from G., 
and which officially attested that the aforesaid twenty-one sheep 
were, at that time, perfectly free from any contagious disease. 
The plaintiff goes on to state, that on the 27th of November, he 
purchased these said animals on tlie faith of the warranty which 
G. had given him; and this is corroborated by several witnesses. 
The present action was therefore brought to recover the damages 
caused by the introduction of these sheep into his flock ; and he 
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