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VETERINARY JUIUSPRIJDENCE. 
Newtown Butler Sessions , June 22d. 
(From the Armagh Sporting Chronicle.) 
Before the Assistant-Barrister and a Jury of three. 
Adams v. Wright. 
Cause of action, breach of warranty—Damage sustained, £13. .10s. 
Solicitors.— Messrs. Scott and Collum, for the plaintiff; Messrs. 
Chitwick and Montgomery , of Enniskillen, for the defendant. 
W. M'Clean examined—Saw the horse in the fair of Belturbet 
shewn for sale ; he appeared sound in his action; bought him for 
Mr. Adams; was commissioned to buy a horse for harness; had 
him engaged sound, and to draw; paid defendant £26..5s. for the 
horse ; brought him carefully home to Monaghan; in a few days 
after served defendant with notice that the horse was unsound, 
and that he would be sold in Monaghan if he refused to take him 
back; was not present at the sale by auction in Monaghan; the 
auctioneer bought him for £13..10s. on account of plaintiff, who 
has him still. The horse was examined in Armagh, by Mr. Small, 
veterinary surgeon; Mr. Adams took notice of a hole in his side, 
which induced him to send him to Armagh to be examined. 
By a juryman .—Kept the horse only a day before taking him 
to be examined; rode him back to defendant and offered him five 
pounds to take him back, which he refused. 
John Roorke examined.—Brought the horse to Armagh, to Mr. 
Small’s establishment, to be examined, by plaintiff’s orders; it was 
the same horse that was bought from defendant in Belturbet fair; 
brought him safe back to Monhagan, and delivered him up to 
Thomas Houston. 
Cross-examined.—Was not present at the auction, but saw the 
horse afterwards in Mr. Adams’s possession. 
Mr. Small , veterinary surgeon, examined.—Recollects a grey 
horse, five years old, being brought to his establishment by the 
last witness, on the 23d February, 1849; the horse was unsound, 
having ophthalmia in both eyes, being lame in the off fore foot, 
and having abdominal hernia below the flank on the off side; the 
disease of the eye must have existed some months; the lameness 
in the foot was caused by a separation of the horny sole and crust, 
the probable effect of a suppurating corn; the rupture may have 
been caused when the horse was very young; such an injury 
might have been inflicted by a cow’s horn; the horse’s value, 
being unsound, is very much diminished; thinks £15 his full 
