V^ETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
175 
Paris, January 24th, 1834. 
To MM. the President and Judges of the ^th Chamber of 
Tribunal of the first instance of the Department of the Seine* 
Gentlemen, 
By your decree of 8th of December last, relating to a suit 
between M. (le Sieur) Doga, letter of horses and carriages, resid¬ 
ing in Paris, No. 36, Neuve des Methuriiis-street, plaintiff (re- 
conventionnellement demandeur), on the one part, and M. Peteau, 
freeholder (proprietaire)y\\v\ug also at Paris, No. 18, Boulevart 
des Italiens, defendant, on the other part, you have thought 
proper, in order to the better understanding of the facts of the 
case, and before you give judgment, to constitute me arbitrator 
(arbitre rapporteur) in this affair, and have charged me in this 
quality to bring the parties before me; and, having heard them 
and other persons, as well at Paris as at Mormaire, to make all 
farther inquiries that I should judge proper, and to report to 
you my opinion on the questions which you have submitted to 
me ; agreeably to your decree, I have heard the parties many 
times, both separately and face to face, and also many other 
witnesses which they have brought before me ; and I proceed to 
report as succinctly as possible the principal facts of the case, 
and the information which I have obtained ; and, after that, I 
shall have the honour to submit to you my opinion on the ques¬ 
tions which you have submitted to me. 
Facts, 
On the 6th of June last, M. Peteau hired for his use from 
M. Doga tw'O carriage horses, which he took on the following 
day, the 7th, to his country residence. In the night of the 28th 
and 29th of the following August, one of these horses had his 
leg broken by his comrade. M. Peteau, after having stated the 
accident before the mayor of the commune, destroyed the animal 
in the absence of the owner, and of which he did not complain. 
On the 18th of the ensuing September, the horse which remained 
was brought back to M. Doga, who received him without ob¬ 
jection. Some days afterwards disputes arise between the parties, 
not only with regard to the price of the dead horse, but the rate 
of the hiring, which M. Doga asserts to be for the express 
sum of 600 francs for six months, but which M. Peteau, on the 
contrary, maintains was agreed to be at the rate of 2 francs 50 
cents per day and per horse. Not being able to agree respecting 
this, M. Peteau, on the 23d of October, offered M. Doga, 
through the medium of M. Garret, officer of the court—1st, 
300 francs as an indemnity for the loss of the horse ; 2d, 210 
francs for the hire of the aforesaid animal from the 6th of June 
to the 29tli August, the day of his death ; and, 3d, 260 francs 
