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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
Blaber v. Griffinhooff. 
This was a claim for £10.. 175., for breach of warranty of a 
horse. Mr. Williams was for plaintiff, and Mr. Kennett for 
defendant. 
Plaintiff said, he advertised in October for a cart horse, and 
received a letter from defendant stating he had a chestnut 
horse for sale, which he would warrant sound. On the 3d 
October, went to Salvington and saw the horse, and the next 
morning bought it for £47..10$: gave a cheque for the amount. 
The horse was sent over on the Saturday, and put to work on 
Monday. It worked till Thursday, and then he heard it was 
lame. Sent for Mr. Birt, who examined the horse, and said, 
“ I hope you have not bought it.” Wrote a letter to defendant 
that night, telling him the horse was not sound, and that it 
must be returned. Defendant came over and saw the horse, 
and afterwards wrote to say he was sorry it had caught a 
severe cold, and wrung its shoulders, since it left Salvington ; 
but that he could not discover it had even a limp, and that it 
had been with him ever since it was two years old, and never 
lamed. As it was not lame when it left, and was not lame 
when he saw it, he should not think of taking it back. On 
receipt of this, plaintiff sent a proposal, that, to settle the ques¬ 
tion of lameness, the horse should be sent to the Veterinary 
College in London, that, the point might be decided. This was 
refused. Mr. Mannington was then called in, aud subsequently 
Mr. Grover, of Lewes, saw the horse. It was eventually sold 
by auction, by Messrs. Verrall, of Lewes, and fetched 40 guineas. 
Its keep amounted to £1..175. 
Cross-examined .—I examined the horse when I bought it; 
not so minutely as I should have done had I not had the war¬ 
ranty. Ossification of the lateral cartilages of the fore feet is 
what I understand it suffers from. I did remark that the feet 
looked curious, and the defendant attributed it to its not being 
shod lately, adding that the horse was “ never lame, sick, or 
sorry.” He asked 50 guineas for the horse : I offered £45, which 
he refused, and we afterwards split the difference. Did not 
work the horse very hard. When my carter reported that the 
horse was tender on his feet, I sent for Mr. Birt, and he at once 
detected the defect. 1 did not observe that it had a cold ; the 
shoulders were a little wrung. It was Air. Verrall who called 
it in his sale bill a “ valuable ” cart gelding. The biddings 
jumped up suddenly from 20 or 21 to 40 guineas. 
