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man was with him. The horse brought by Fussell was four vears old, 
and the one in question is now rising six years old. I think the horse 
in question is not a dark-brown cob. It is a horse. A horse is a cob 
if under 14 feet 3 inches. The horse in question is a brown, and not a 
very dark brown, and I have no doubt it is 15 hands high. The two 
horses are very unlike each other. The horse examined by me for Mr. 
Ward, on the 22d July had a broken knee, which would show for 
life ; that I examined on the 31st August never had a broken knee. 
Mr. Nathaniel Leigh , of Bristol, veterinary surgeon, examined by Mr. 
Edlin—1 have been in practice as a veterinary surgeon for eighteen 
years. On the 22d June last, I went with the plaintiff to Mr. Neale’s, 
to see the horse in question. I examined the horse, and it had then a 
broken knee and was shod with leather. Leathers are generally used 
to protect diseased horses. 1 examined the fore feet of the horse, and 
found them both diseased from ossified cartilages, of five or six months’ 
standing at the least, or even more than that. The soles of the feet 
were convex instead of being concave. The disease would affect the 
action of the horse going down hill. The horse was lame at the time I 
saw it, As the disease progressed the lameness would increase. The 
horse would do work at first, but would be in pain—that pain would 
cause it to stumble, and make it very timid in going down hill. No 
doubt the broken knee was done by the horse going in pain. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Jones—Can't state so closely as Mr. Kent, 
that ulceration is going on in the cuneiform bones. A horse having the 
ulceration described would, I should suppose, be very lame. In my 
opinion the horse had not the navicular disease. I should think it had 
disease of the coffin-bone. This is the first, time I have told any one 
that the horse had that disease. Discovered no disease in the small 
bone of the pastern. Supposing the horse to have had ossified carti¬ 
lages, navicular disease, and diseases of the small bones and coffin-bone, 
it would have been uncomfortable and a perfect cripple With all 
those diseases it would have been a perfect cripple on the 31st March 
last. Leather shoes are sometimes used for horses that are sound. It 
is very common to use them for horses that have rather thin soles. 
Should call the horse a brown one. The injury to the knee is not likely 
to be much blemish. The hair may be grown in about six weeks. 
Re examined by Mr. Edlin—The horse’s lameness down hill was 
occasioned by the diseased feet. The horse was about 15 hands. It 
might have had the navicular disease or not. Disease in the hocks 
would produce lameness according to the progress which the disease 
has made. 
Mr. Edlin here intimated to the learned judge that he had another 
witness in court, Mr. Brown , professor of veterinary medicine, of the 
Roval Agricultural College, Cirencester, who was a perfectly unbiassed 
witness, and who had not yet examined the horse. The horse was then 
in Malmesbury, and he (the learned counsel) applied for an inspection 
of the horse by Mr. Brown. His honour said he thought there could he 
no possible objection to such a course, and Mr. Brown, accompanied 
by Mr. Ward and Mr. Neale, the present owner of the horse, accord¬ 
ingly adjourned to the stables of the “ King’s Arms” for that purpose. 
On their return, Mr. Brown said he had examined the horse, and had 
formed an opinion on the question at issue, but as some objection was 
raised by iMr. Neale to the horse being taken out of the stable, he (Mr. 
Brown) had not an opportunity of making so minute an examination as 
he could have wished. 
His Honour remarked that the only object in the present case was 
