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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
when we inform them that there yet remains to be perused, 
besides other subjects, c Un Aper£u Historique sur la 
Medecine Veterinaire, 5 6 Souvenirs d’Angleterre/ ‘La Mode- 
cine Veterinaire en Espagne/ &c. no ordinarily attractive baits 
to us, nor indeed such as we relinquish all hope of being still 
able, one day, to test the virtue of. 
VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
LEICESTER ASSIZES, SATURDAY, JULY 24. 
(Before Mr. Justice Coleridge.) 
WILMOT V. LEES. 
Counsel for plaintiff, Sergeant Miller and Mr. Field; 
attorney, Mr. Tweed. Counsel for defendant, Mr. Macaulay, 
Q.C., and Mr. Boden ; attorney, Messrs. Newton and Gillv, 
of Retford. 
This was an action to recover £27 odd from defendant, 
alleged to be owing to plaintiff upon a horse case. 
Mr. Sergeant Miller stated the case to the jury. It ap¬ 
peared that plaintiff, who is a horse-dealer, residing in 
Lincolnshire, bought a brown horse of defendant for £38. 
The horse was warranted, and afterwards proved to be un¬ 
sound, having, it was stated, affection of the nerves in the 
“ lumbar ” region, which, in non-professional terms, means, a 
disease of the nerves in the loins. When the unsoundness 
was discovered, the horse was sold again in Lincoln market 
for £23, and the action was brought for the difference, and 
£10 besides, which plaintiff said he was entitled to, because 
he had not the opportunity of selling the horse at a fair 
where prices were high. 
Mr. Wilmot (the plaintiff) was the first witness, and he 
stated the circumstances under which the sale took place, 
and the subsequent sale in dispute. 
A veterinary surgeon and a wine merchant described the 
state of the horse; and then 
John Jeykle, a veterinary surgeon, who had had extensive 
practice for the last five years, was called. He stated as 
follows :—In the month of April he was called in by plaintiff 
to look at a brown horse, and found it suffering under an 
affection of the large nerves which take their origin from the 
spinal marrow as it passes through the loins. He discovered 
this first by the peculiarity of the animal’s action in the stall. 
