VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 571 
with him. By Sergeant Miller: The horse used only to lift 
his feet when they were struck with the pitchfork. Never 
let his master see him do this. 
Edward Grumner, a horse-breaker, of Retford, deposed to 
examining the horse when he was bought by Burton, at 
Retford. He rode the horse, and thought he went very well. 
He believed he was then a sound horse, and there was no 
unnatural action of the feet. 
Francis Talbot, a veterinary surgeon from Whatton, near 
Bingham, said he saw the brown horse sold by Burton at 
Newark fair. He examined him in the stable and out of it, 
and found no appearance of unsoundness. Fie understood, 
at the time, that the horse was injured in his back, and had 
got the string-halt; but witness could not detect traces of 
any such affections. If a horse was labouring under a disease 
of the nerves of the back, very few would buy him at any 
price. If sound, he would be worth perhaps about £25. 
The horse was a sluggish, bad goer. 
Flenry Hutchinson, a veterinary surgeon from Retford, of 
seventeen years’ practice, said he examined the horse after the 
sale at Lincoln, and he had perfect and proper action, though 
he moved him about in all forms. He was perfectly sound, 
and was worth about £25. If the horse had a disease of the 
nerves of the back, in the “ lumbar” region, he would be 
unsound. When he examined the horse, it decidedly had 
not paralysis of the nerves of the back. 
Mr. Richard Reynolds, another veterinary surgeon from 
Mansfield, of twenty-two years’ practice, examined the horse, 
and, from the appearances he manifested, he did not think 
the nerves of his back were affected. 
Henry Rusby, jun., was called by Mr. Macaulay, and it 
was proved that he was subpoenaed by the prosecutor’s 
attorney. Mr. Macaulay declined to ask any questions; and 
Sergeant Miller asked a few questions about some statement 
the witness had made about the horse’s leg. Nothing material 
was elicited. All he proved was, that the horse was too idle 
to lift his legs high enough. 
Benjamin Tallents was called by Sergeant Miller. He 
said he was a butcher at Retford. The last witness told him 
that the horse used to use his legs very queerly when his 
father had him. 
This was defendant’s case. 
Mr. Macaulay briefly replied upon the evidence given by 
Tallents, contending that he did not contradict the evidence 
given by the younger Rusby, but, on the contrary, rather 
strengthened his (Mr Macaulay’s) case. 
