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for twelve months,and that he had never been fora moment lame. 
The farrier who had been accustomed to shoe the horse, swore 
that the feet were good, and that the horse was perfectly sound 
up to the time of his coming to town. 
A veterinary surgeon in the neighbourhood spoke to his gene¬ 
ral soundness, and that he had examined and passed him as 
sound before he started for town. 
The assistant to a veterinary surgeon at Horncastle swore that 
he knew the horse early in 1831; and that he was perfectly 
sound, and that he had then observed the scars to which Mr. 
Field referred. 
Another practitioner of eighteen years’ standing examined him 
in the fair at Downham, and the horse was sound. 
Professor Coleman deposed that the horse had been brought to 
him to ascertain whether he had undergone the operation of neu¬ 
rotomy, and that he gave it as his opinion that no such operation 
had been performed or attempted. That he saw no unsoundness 
then about the horse; but that, when he was brought to him again 
three or four days afterwards, to his great surprise, he found him 
palpably lame in the off foot, and that from thickening, and 
hardening, and morbid concavity of the sole. He had not indeed 
taken off the shoes, as Mr. Turner had, and whom he compli¬ 
mented as the discoverer of this navicular joint disease ; but he 
did not think that the horse then had, or now has, this navi¬ 
cular affection, although the morbid concavity of the sole might 
lead to it. He admitted that there were various kinds of con¬ 
traction, and one in which the navicular joint was necessarily 
compressed and the membrane inflamed, but he did not think 
that this was the case here. It was a morbid concavity of the 
sole, produced by standing idle in the stable, by heated litter, or 
by want of frog pressure. He was not sure, that, if the sole had 
been here thoroughly pared out, the lameness would have ceased, 
although he was inclined to think that it would; but, certainly, 
the thickness remaining, and the sole becoming fixed, the horse 
would be irrecoverably lame. A thrush was not necessarily un¬ 
soundness. He did not think that it was the cause of unsound¬ 
ness here; but if it were, it must have existed some considerable 
time. 
A verdict was given in favour of the plaintiff.—Damages £110, 
the price of the horse, and £12 for his keep. 
We wish that we were enabled more fully and perfectly to 
report this interesting trial. We should feel exceedingly obliged 
if our brethren in the metropolis would give us notice of expected 
trials, that we might be present, or send a competent reporter. 
These trials are very interesting, and instructive too. 
