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as to the comparative value of the two horses, he said, that they 
were both good horses, but that his memory would not suf¬ 
ficiently serve him to say which was the better horse. 
M. Peteau stated, that he had, in fact, hired the two horses 
at the rate of 150 francs per month, but that he had never en¬ 
gaged to keep them four months, as Doga had asserted; but, 
on the contrary, he conceived that he might have returned them 
whenever he thought proper. He further said, that he did not 
conceive that he could be forced to pay the hire during the 
whole of the month of September, for one horse had been ren¬ 
dered useless from the 29th of August—his leg having been 
broken by the other; and that he thought that he could only be 
compelled to pay the hire up to the day that he returned the 
surviving horse. He added, that it appeared to him strange 
that Daga should demand an indemnity of 800 francs for a 
worn-out and mangy horse, which the veterinary surgeon at 
Montfort TAmaury had valued at 200 francs, as the certificate 
which he now delivered would prove; and, beside, that Doga 
could not conscientiously demand more to-day than he had asked 
a few days after the accident, when he limited his claim to 500 
francs, and which he offered to prove by producing M. Lefebvre, 
14, Provence-street, who had declared that, some days after the 
accident, he had been charged by Peteau, his father, to offer Doga 
300 francs as an indemnity; but that he then demanded 500 
francs in order to settle the dispute. 
Doga replied, that, in despite of the assertions of Peteau, he 
persisted in his first deposition—that the certificate of the vete¬ 
rinary surgeon at Montfort TAmaury was worth nothing in his 
opinion, because it was not given until the 27th of November; 
while the facts which was stated passed in June; that he knew' 
not whether, through want of care, his horse had become mangy 
in the stables of Peteau, but that, when he left Paris he had not 
a blemish about him, which, if it were needed, the veterinary 
surgeon, Giraud, would certify. Finally, that Lefebvre was de¬ 
ceived in attesting that he had only demanded 500 francs in the 
first instance; whereas, on the contrary, he had said that, if 
that sum had been offered, he would have refused it. 
Lefebvre, being examined, persisted in the truth of what his 
father had stated, notwithstanding the denial of it by Doga; 
and Giraud stated, that, at the time of his examination of these 
horses, he did not perceive the slightest cutaneous disease; and 
that, if he had observed it, he should have opposed the purchase 
of the horses, rather than recommended it. 
These examinations being concluded, I proceeded to examine 
the horse which Doga brought, and which Peteau recognized 
as that which he had returned on the 18th of September* He 
