BLACKWOOD V. WRIGHT. 
487 
the plaintiff, Mr. Murray in Dunnyinuck, Thomas Wright, and 
some of the plaintiff’s servants, and the deponent made a tho¬ 
rough inspection of the cause of the death, and found the small 
guts grown to the back at the kidneys, and the growth extending 
downwards, which growth stopped the mouth of the fundament 
or anus, so that the horse could get no passage, which, with a 
great growing upon the lungs, was, in the deponent’s opinion, 
the cause of the horse’s death; and, in the deponent’s opinion, 
this growing, both from its appearance and size, must have been 
upon the horse six months before his death. That it was quite 
good daylight when the deponent made the above inspection. 
That Thomas Wright was present when the deponent made the 
inspection, and Thomas Lyle, a witness in this case, came soon 
after the horse w’as opened. That, in the deponent’s opinion, 
the above disease must have prevented the horse from dunging 
freely. That there w^as no common inflammation upon the horse, 
except at the part where it was diseased, and * his guts were as 
clean as a new-killed sheep’ without disease. Interrogated for 
the defendant, and desired to say, when he prescribed laudanum 
and nitre for the horse, what he considered the nature of the 
trouble under which he laboured ? Depones, That he considered 
the horse was labouring under a disease in the bowels, such as 
cholic and grippings. Interrogated, If by grippings he means 
inflammation ? Depones, That he does not, as he did not think 
the horse was labourino- under inflammation. Interrogated, 
What he considered the grippings with which the horse was af¬ 
fected arose from ? Depones, That he considers these grippings 
to have arisen from the growings after he saw him opened. In¬ 
terrogated, If the horse could have been affected with grippings 
in his bowels without inflammation? Depones, That he might. 
Interrogated, If the medicine prescribed and given to the horse 
was intended to allay inflammation ? Depones, That the medi¬ 
cine prescribed was to quell any grippings, but not as to any in¬ 
flammation, as the horse had none, according to the deponent’s 
opinion, and the state of the horse’s blood. Interrogated, If the. 
medicine given w’as intended to operate as a purgative ? De¬ 
pones, That it was. Interrogated, If the bleeding was intended 
to remove inflammation, or for what other cause was it resorted 
to? Depones, That the bleeding was intended to keep back or 
prevent inflammation. Interrogated, If the horse was afl’ected 
with cholic at the time? Depones, Tliat the first time he saw 
the horse, he was aft'ected with cholic, and it had continued for 
three hours, and he bled him for fear of inflammation ensuing. 
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Interrogated, If the clysters and castrol oil were given to remove 
the cholic? Depones, Thut^they were. Interrogated, If the 
