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for the hire of the second horse from the 6th of June to the 
iSth of September, the day on which he was returned to Doga; 
in the whole, 770 francs. 
These offers having been refused, as under all the circum¬ 
stances insufficient, Peteau, on the 26th of October last, de¬ 
posited in court the sum offered ; and on the 28th of the same 
month he cited Doga to appear before the court, to see the offers 
which had been made to him declared good and available. The 
cause was heard on the 23d of November, when Doga demand¬ 
ed, by his advocate, that the offers that had been made should 
be declared insufficient and null, and that Peteau should be 
condemned to pay him 2,100 francs; namely, 600 francs for the 
hire of the two horses, and 1,500 francs as an indemnity for the 
loss of one of the horses, and the consequences resulting from 
that loss. Peteau replied on the 4th of December by a prayer, 
that the court would pronounce his offers good and equitable, 
and, on account of them, would release him from the suit of 
Do^a. 
^ • • 
Such is in few words, gentlemen, the state of the case which 
you have thought proper to submit to my arbitration, and re¬ 
questing me to give you my opinion on the three following 
questions—1st, Whether the hire of the horses, with regard to 
which the present action w^as brought, was at so much per day, 
or for four months, at a fixed price ? 2d, Whether Peteau is 
responsible for the accident which happened to the horse, the 
value of vffiich is claimed? And, 3d, What was the value of that 
horse ? 
The better to give an answer to these questions, you have 
authorized me to state, 1st, What is the usage relating to the 
hiring of horses? 2d, To examine the surviving horse; and, 3d, 
To receive evidence from the parties, and from other persons, as 
well at Paris as at the country-seat of Peteau, where the acci¬ 
dent occurred. I shall now have the honour of laying before 
you the documents I have collected on those points. 
The point of Law. 
Ought Peteau to pay 600 francs for the hire of the horses for 
four months, or at the rate of two and a half francs per day and 
per horse ? 
The loss of the horse; should the hirer or the owner be re¬ 
sponsible ? 
What was the value of the animal ? 
Examinations. 
Doga, whom I first examined, said that he could not accede 
to the offers of Peteau, because they were far less than the sum 
to which he was entitled ; that he had let his horses not by the 
