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in practice, that we suspect it will prove a somewhat difficult 
matter to procure pure Aberdeenshire animals; the more so, as 
there often appear strange freaks of nature, at times producing 
types of animals that had, at some former period, appeared in the 
race, but had apparently been extinct even for some generations. 
This subject requires the special attention of the farmer, and 
shews the value of good pedigree. 
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CASE OF WARRANTY. 
Sympson v. Dixon. 
Mr. Crowder and Mr. Phinn appeared for the plaintiff; 
Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Smith for the defendant. 
This was an action to recover damages for a breach of warranty 
alleged to have been given with a horse sold to the plaintiff. The 
horse was sold for £28, for farm purposes, the plaintiff, who is a 
solicitor, of the firm of A’Beckett and Co., London, having an 
estate at Banwell, which he farmed. The defendant kept a 
repository in London, and was a horse-dealer. On the 20th 
December the parties came together, and the plaintiff, seeing the 
horse, expressed a desire to have it: it was then in the defendant’s 
repository, and on the day following the defendant’s foreman, a 
person named Hill, bargained with him for the horse, it being 
agreed that £28 should be paid for it, and a warranty was given 
for it at the time. The plaintiff had on a former occasion bought 
a horse from the defendant, which also turned out to be bad, and 
this second horse was sold for £28, alleged to be a small price, in 
order to make up to some extent for the loss on the former bargain. 
The horse was soon after sent to Banwell, when it was almost 
immediately discovered that it was faulty. It got worse rapidly, 
and died in January last. 
The material portions of the correspondence having been put in 
and read, with a cheque for £45, to pay for the horse and a cow, 
the following evidence was given. 
Thomas Jenkins, clerk to Messrs. A’Beckett and Co., said—The 
plaintiff has a farm at Banwell; on the 21st December I was called 
to witness the bargain made between Mr. Sympson and Hill; I 
