VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 381 
cow was opened, the lungs were in a most dreadful state. It was quite 
unfit for human food. 
Mr. Tegg, veterinary surgeon to the market, said—I inspected 
the cow in question, and found it in a dreadfully diseased state. It was 
in a very emaciated conditions, and was suffering from pleuro-pneumonia. 
I do not consider that disease contagious. It also had the mouth and 
foot disease, which I do not consider contagious. I saw the cow opened, 
and the lungs were dreadfully diseased. The udder was full of matter. 
It was quite unfit for human food. 
Mr. Beard addressed the magistrate in mitigation, and contended 
that the smallest possible fine would meet the justice of the case, as 
his client had only a few weeks ago given £12 for the cow, and had 
sent it to the market, not knowing that anything was the matter with it. 
A witness was called who took the cow to market, and said he was 
not aware that it was diseased. 
Mr. William Staveley , veterinary surgeon, of Highbury, said that 
pleuro-pneumonia and the mouth and foot disease were not contagious. 
He had tried it by inoculation, and was certain that it was not. 
Mr. Barker.—Do you consider that a cow in the state of disease you 
have described would be fit for human food i 
Mr. Staveley. —Well, I should not like to eat any of it, although I 
have no doubt that as bad is made up in respectable shops and largely 
partaken of. 
A voice. —Then I will have no more sausages (loud laughter). 
Mr. Barker said he had no doubt about the cow being unfit for human 
food. As this was the first case of the kind that had been brought 
under his notice, he should only inflict a penalty of £5 and costs. 
The fine was paid.— Evening Standard , May 8tb. 
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, May 12th. 
HORSE-CHA UNTING. 
William Cook, 62, a well-dressed man, was charged with unlawfully 
obtaining £115 10.?., by means of false pretences. 
Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Orridge prosecuted ; Mr. Giffard was counsel for 
the defendant. 
The offence imputed to the defendant was that which is pretty well 
understood by the term “ horse-chaunting.” The prosecutor was a 
gentleman named Joynson, residing at Foots Cray, and in March last 
he saw an advertisement of two dapple-gray carriage-horses for sale. 
He sent his coachman to look at them, and the prisoner represented 
himself to be a gentleman of property at Leamington, and to be the 
owner of them, and also that they had been driven by his wife and 
daughter ; but that in consequence of his family being in bad health he 
was obliged to give up the horses in question. Upon the faith of these 
representations the prosecutor was induced to give £115 10,?. for the 
horses, and his coachman was sent to fetch them home, but he had 
only gone a very short distance when he discovered that they were both 
broken-winded and comparatively worthless. Upon an application being 
made at the stables the next morning they were found to be locked up, 
and the prisoner had decamped, and the next that was heard of him 
was his making an application to the Court of Bankruptcy. Evidence 
was given that he had for a long time been engaged in transactions of 
