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VETERINAliy JURISPRUDENCE. 
deal on his own judgment. As far as the sale went, it was one 
of the fairest transactions. Mr. Blundell came to the plain¬ 
tiff’s stables, the mare was brought out on the pavement and 
trotted, she was also gallopped on some bark land for the pur¬ 
pose, and then he took her away for examination by a veterinary 
surgeon elsewhere. Some persons would not have allowed this, 
but Mr. Lucas did ; and he must have had great confidence in 
the soundness of the beast or he would not have consented,—for 
a veterinary surgeon so employed might be considered as an 
adversary, as he, of course, tried to pick out faults, as his learned 
friend (Mr. Sergeant Atcherley) who was watching that case, 
would try to find fault with it. The horse was tried by a 
butcher, whom Mr. Blundell had known as a good judge of horse 
flesh, and he approved of her. When she came back from the 
veterinary surgeon’s, Mr. Lucas found that her shoes had 
been off. That certainly was a great test to submit her to ; but 
more, the mare’s feet had been pared down so low that one of 
them had been cut to the quick. ‘"Yes,” said Mr. Blundell, 
I had her shoes off certainly,”—perhaps to look for corns; so 
that if there had been one it would have been discovered. Ay,” 
said Mr. Lucas, ‘Hhey have been pared until they bleed, and 
they have been cauterized to stop the blood and he took his 
knife from his pocket, cut off' a little of the burnt horn, and 
satisfied himself that it was so. But after all this examination 
the mare was approved, purchased, and taken away; and the 
next day she was brought back, and it was stated that she was 
lame, and she certainly was. But Mr. Lucas said he could not 
take her in, for she was sound enough when sold, and had not 
been brought back within the time limited ; and she was sent to 
livery. She remained some time at Walton’s livery stables; 
and at last Mr. Blundell and Mr. Lucas considered that, though 
the matter was to be brought to trial, it would be very expensive 
to keep her there, and they agreed to sell her; and she was sold 
in October without warranty, but with the reputation of being a 
mare about which there was a dispute, for the sum of thirty 
guineas, while, they would recollect, Mr. Blundell had only 
bought her for £47..10s. with a warranty. Well; the gentleman 
who bought her rode her to his house in Staffordshire, a distance 
of between fifty and sixty miles, in one day, and found her per¬ 
fectly sound. After riding her he put her into harness, and drove 
her back to Liverpool, a distance of fifty-four miles; and she was 
sound still, and so she continued; and a few weeks ago, being too 
light for the work for which she was wanted, she was exchanged 
for another, and in the exchange was valued at forty guineas. 
That was pretty good proof that she was sound when she was 
