BLACKWOOD V. WRIGHT. 
439 
kill the horse; and he considered them perfectly incurable, and 
of long standing. That the deponent has seen different horses 
opened which died of inflammation, and the appearance was all 
red in the parts (intestines), but no growings of any firm sub¬ 
stance, such as he saw^ on the horse in question. All which is 
truth, &.C. 
Thomas Wright, blacksmith and farrier at Drummullan, being 
solemnly sworn, &c. and interrogated, depones. That he has been 
in the practice of attending to the diseases of horses for these 
forty-five years : That he remembers of being called upon, upon 
the 15th or 16th December, 1829, to look at a horse which the 
plaintiff had got from the defendant: That the deponent accord¬ 
ingly went there, and found the horse in a dying state, and he 
died that day : That the deponent saw^ the horse after his en¬ 
trails were taken out, and he then formed his opinion of the 
cause of its death, and he is still of the same opinion that the 
horse’s death was occasioned by a growth of his entrails at the 
kidneys to the back, and that it had been of long continuance 
from its size; and on examination of the growth that had at¬ 
tached the entrails to the back, which w^as of a blackish colour, 
and, in his opinion, this growth would stop the passage and pre¬ 
vent the horse from dunging : That when the deponent first saw 
the horse, he put his hand up its fundament, and he felt the hard 
substance pressing against his hand ; and after the horse w^as 
opened up, the growth in his inside was of a hard nature, re¬ 
sembling the lure of a cow when cut; and, after ascertaining and 
examining the horse, he was satisfied that the above growings 
were the cause of the horse’s death, and therefore he examined 
no farther; and, in his opinion, that this growth could not have 
been formed in less than six months; and, in the deponent’s 
opinion, a horse labouring under such a disease, must have felt 
difficulty in dunging: That the deponent saw no inflammation 
upon the intestines, except at the place w^here the growing was. 
Interrogated for the defendant, depones. That he never studied 
farriery at any college, but he has for many years received in¬ 
structions, and studied the diseases of horses, first from his fa¬ 
ther, and afterwards from Mr. Pinkerton in Glasgow’: That 
both his father and Mr. Pinkerton were blacksmiths, and these 
two persons w’ere often called to give their opinion as to the dis¬ 
eases of horses : That after the deponent first saw’ the horse, he 
went home, but w’as sent for again on the same day, after the 
horse had been opened and his entrails taken out: That the 
size of the growth w’as, in the deponent’s opinion, his only rea¬ 
son for saying that the growth had been of long standing : That 
the night before the deponent was sent for, but could not come; 
