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Peter Wood is carter to Mr. Blaber. Worked the horse on 
the Monday to Southwick twice, with a very fair load. He 
went lame. He had bad shoes on, and, attributing it to that 
cause, he had him re-shod. He went worse the next day, and 
so on till the fourth day, when orders were given to discontinue 
working him. 
Cross-examined. —T noticed the lameness before we got to 
Southwick. Told plaintiff on Thursday. The shoulders were 
a little wrung on the third day. The horse had no cold. Per¬ 
haps a sound horse taken from the soft ground of a farm and 
newly shod might go lame on a hard road. Himself and mate 
discovered the lameness about the same time. Did not discover 
the lameness because he only received a shilling with the horse. 
William Birt sworn. —I have practised as a veterinary sur¬ 
geon twenty-eight years. Examined the horse on the 10th. 
Found him unsound, in consequence of the ossification of the 
lateral cartilages on the coronet of both fore feet. That would 
make him lame. The horse might do farming work for a con¬ 
siderable time without this being discovered. It must have 
been on him for six months. This is a common disease with 
horses. 
Cross-examined. —It had not a cold; there was a very trifling 
rub, if it could be called a rub, on the shoulders. Mr. Blaber 
did not draw my attention to the defect: I could have seen it 
at twenty feet. I should say that the actual ossification in this 
case does not admit of a question. 
By the Judge. —This defect would decidedly be unsoundness ; 
the wringing could not have caused the lameness. 
John Mannington, a member of the Royal College of Vete¬ 
rinary Surgeons, examined the horse on the 16th October, and 
agreed with the last witness : the ossification was principally 
on the outside. 
John Grover, Veterinary College, examined the horse, and 
came to a like conclusion. 
This was the plaintiff’s case. 
Defendant sworn. —I am a farmer at Salvington. When 
plaintiff bought the horse it was brought out for his inspection, 
and he examined it. He remarked that the feet were curious. 
I said, “ Yes, but he’s never been lame ; he has been in my 
possession since 1849.” Have worked him at all kinds of work, 
and he has never gone lame. 
George Combe is a veterinary surgeon at Worthing, and is a 
Member of the College of thirty-two years’ practice. Had ex¬ 
amined the horse, and he thought the other witnesses had not 
minutely examined his feet. There was no ossification of the 
cartilage, but only an excrescence on the convex side of the hoof 
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