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good stable and temperature. Ordinary cost of a horse at livery 
is £L..ls. per week; his charge for medical attendance is £6..6s. ; 
on the 1st and 2d of September. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Martin.—Has a book in which he makes 
entries of attendances; there is an entry of his attendances, but 
the charge is not carried out; has not been paid his charge by the 
plaintiff; the lung was hepatized; there were many abscesses in 
it, and it was decomposed; did not tell the plaintiff there was 
cheesy matter in them; the portion of the lung shewn him by 
Proctor was about lib in weight; two or three of the plaintiff’s 
horses had coughs at this time—a chestnut particularly; a bay or 
brown horse had a cold; he was returned as a whistler. Chronic 
inflammation would produce a cough; trotting would cause a cough, 
if that disease existed; so would breaking into harness or driving 
in a gig; it would cause the skin to be rough and staring; chronic 
disease is never of short duration: inflammation comes on very 
suddenly, and occasionally causes a very sudden death; in acute 
inflammation the breathing is laborious; it is then advisable to let 
blood; deaths may ensue very suddenly; chronic inflammation is 
a disorganized state of the lungs; the lungs, in life, are light, and 
would float in water; in the horse in question they would sink in 
water; the appearance they presented could not be the result of 
any but long inflammation. 
Samuel Hicks Withers. —Is a horse-dealer and veterinary sur¬ 
geon at Bristol. On the 26th of September last was at Howden 
fair; purchased the bay gelding for £60 of the plaintiff, who war¬ 
ranted him sound; made a cursory examination of the horse; did 
not examine the horse the same as if he had no warranty; took 
the horse to Bristol by rail; the horse was treated with care on 
the journey; put a rug and a night cap on him: the horse was in 
good condition; on the change of carriages at Gloucester witness 
observed the horse coughed; gave the horse at Bristol to one of 
his men; the horse was put in and dressed in his stable; he coughed 
then; on the following morning he coughed, and his coat stared ; 
did not send for Mr. Kent until the horse was dead; did not work 
the horse, but treated it as an invalid; in four or five days after 
his arrival there were dangerous symptoms; the horse died on the 
1st of October. Sent for Mr. Kent on Sunday; Kent came on 
Monday, and in his presence made a post-mortem examination ; 
received back £60 for the horse from the plaintiff, £7..10s. for 
his expenses, and £4..4.?. for law expenses. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Martin.—The plaintiff paid me yes¬ 
terday. 
By Mr. Marlin.—Then you qualified yourself yesterday to come 
here as a witness to-day 1 
