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and £21..3s. the payment of expenses which the plaintiff had 
made and incurred in consequence of the horse’s unsoundness and 
death. 
From the evidence it appeared, that the plaintiff bought the 
horse, then five years old, of the defendant, on the 23d of August 
1848, for £62 ; that he was delivered the next day; that two 
hours afterwards the plaintiff’s groom, who received him, perceived 
that he coughed and refused part of his feed; that in leading him 
on the road home afterwards “he did nothing but cough;” that after 
going twenty-one miles he again refused his corn ; that next day 
he was led twenty-six miles, and in his journey coughed, and at 
the end of it again refused his food ; that he was then put on the 
railway to be brought his last stage homeward; that on his arrival 
he still coughed and ate but sparingly; and in consequence for 
four or five days did no work, but had walking exercise. 
[The bulk of the evidence is veterinary; and since this supplies 
the fullest facts of the case, and is solely interesting to us in a pro¬ 
fessional point of view, it is not our intention to give any other. 
The plaintiff obtained a verdict on the first count, the recovery of 
the price of the horse, £62 ; but was refused one on the second 
count, for £23 for expenses incurred.— Ed. Yet.] 
Thomas Procter deposed : am a veterinary surgeon practising at 
Liverpool, and an assistant to Mr. Ellis: on the 1st of Sept, last 
was at the plaintiffs stables; was attending a chestnut horse for 
inflammation in the throat; the chestnut horse was kept in a stable 
on the opposite side of the yard to the stable in which the bay 
horse was kept; had his attention called to the bay horse, the 
subject of this action, and looked at it; thought he had a slight 
cold; it is very common for young horses to have such a cold: 
recommended stimulating his throat and giving him a mash; next 
heard of the horse being dead on the 4th of October; was at Bristol 
on the 5th of October; a post-mortem examination had been made 
by Mr. Kent; saw the lungs at Mr. Kent’s; the right lung was 
much hepatised, with a great number of tubercles; hepatised means 
that the lungs must have become like liver; the disease must have 
been of from two to three months’ duration; did not see the liver; 
has had an extensive practice in cases of diseased lungs; this dis¬ 
ease is not always easy of detection; did not see the carcass; has 
known a horse to keep up his condition and appearance, although 
the lungs were diseased. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Martin, Q.C.—-First saw the horse early 
in Sept.; saw the lung at Bristol on the 5th of October; the horse’s 
coat was very good in Sept.; he appeared then to be a perfectly 
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