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are those of gripes; this colt never, at any time, had any symptoms 
of this kind; the man in charge of the colt was three-fourths of 
his time in RadclifFs shop; a horse in health should stale three 
times in twenty-four hours; it is impossible that the bladder could 
contain two, three, or four days’ urine; suppose strangury did exist, 
I know of no means to relieve the colt; do not think it possible 
that the catheter could be passed, and the urethra inflamed, in so 
young an animal, without rupturing it. Intelligence of the colt’s 
illness did not arrive in Newry until after you had gone to 
Dundalk on Monday; forwarded the letter immediately, and, by 
return, had your order to go to Banbridge ; did so ; colt died an 
hour after I arrived, from peritoneal inflammation, not from 
strangury. 
Cross-examined. — Has seen Mr. Small operate on a great 
number of horses; never knew one to die from the operation before 
this; was not told on Wednesday that the colt did not stale, nor 
on Thursday; the man states what is not true, he told me on 
Friday; he was not well, and did not get up till late in the day; saw 
the colt looking well and feeding; paid no heed to the man’s 
statement, not the least; though he were dying from strangury 
could not relieve him, nor any one else; had no control over the 
man; could certainly advise him, but not command him to stay, if 
the colt was not fit to go home. 
Edward Darlington , a veterinary pupil, articled in Mr. Small’s 
establishment, could shew that it is usual to send a horse home 
six days after the operation: the very week that plaintiff’s colt was 
operated on, one the same age, the property of Mr. Wynder, of 
Armagh, was cut, and sent home on the sixth day; he is alive and 
well; a horse could not have strangury without expressing pain, 
nor could he exist forty-eight hours under it. 
Ebenezer Hewlitt, a veterinary pupil in Mr. Small’s establish¬ 
ment, could also prove that it is not usual to see a horse a second 
time after the operation : saw Mr. Small operate on two horses at 
Sir John M'Neale’s, near Dundalk, on last Monday week, and they 
were sent a distance of five miles immediately after the operation: 
they did not die. 
James King , a qualified member of the veterinary profession, in 
practice at Belfast, would prove the absurdity of the allegation of 
neglect in not relieving strangury in a colt after castration; it is 
impossible, if it did occur: never heard of such a case; the colt 
must have died from some other cause : the statement that a colt 
labouring under strangury travelled ten Irish miles in six hours, 
and lived two days after, is preposterous. 
The Court, after complimenting Mr. Small, said, It is quite 
