VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
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William Edwards, a railway porter at Kingston station, said that on 
the morning in question he took the sheep out of the truck and delivered 
them to Laming the drover; he saw nothing amiss with them, nor did 
Laming say anything about them ; saw no blood in the pen. 
Cross-examined.—1 here were about 140 sheep delivered by me the 
same morning; Mr. Lee’s were in a truck by themselves. 
Mr. Picknell, recalled, said the injury must have been of much longer 
standing than that of the previous night. 
Laming, recalled, said he had a dog with him when he fetched the 
sheeD, but it never touched them. 
His Honour, in recapitulating the evidence, said that it was not right, 
nor could any person for a moment think it was correct, to put a heifer 
and a calf with six sheep, for the heifer naturally would attack the sheep 
and drive them, and he had no doubt that it was a negligent act on the 
part of the company’s servants, and he could have no doubt as to their 
responsibility. The evidence of the plaintiff’s witnesses was really very 
clear and conclusive, and he felt that he was bound to give a verdict for 
the plaintiff, with attorney’s costs and for three witnesses, to be paid in 
a week, with the plaintiff’s travelling expenses from Woking. 
BOW STREET. 
A Cabman’s Notion of Humanity. 
George Stagle, a cab-driver, appeared to answer a summons which had 
been issued at the instance of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 
to Animals, charging him with cruelly flogging and otherwise ill-treating 
a horse. 
Mr. Frank Whittaker Bush , of Old square, Lincoln’s Inn, deposed— 
On the afternoon of the 26th ult. I was passing along Carey Street, in 
the direction of Lincoln’s Inn, when I saw the defendant driving a cab. 
He was standing up and flogging the horse so severely that the blood 
was streaming from his flanks. The horse was walking on three legs, 
being lame in one foot in consequence of the loss of a shoe. 
James Rutherford, one of the officers of the Society for the Prevention 
of Cruelty to Animals, deposed—I went on the evening in question to 
the stables of defendant’s employer, Mr. Mill, and waited till defendant 
came in with his cab. The horse was quite lame from the loss of his 
shoe, and his sides were streaming with blood. He was much marked 
with weals under his flank. 
Mr. Mill, the proprietor of the horse and cab, also spoke to the marks 
of ill-usage on the body of the horse. The poor auimal had clearly been 
treated with great and unnecessary cruelty. 
Defendant admitted that he flogged the horse severely, but said he did so 
really from a motive of humanity. The poor creature, being lame from 
the loss of the shoe, was suffering very much, and, indeed, could hardly 
get along, so he used the whip in order to get the poor thing home as 
soon as possible, and not to protract its pain by allowing it to go 
slowly. 
Mr Henry, not being satisfied with the defendant’s humanity, fined 
him 30s. and costs, or in default to be imprisoned for three weeks. 
The fine not being paid, the defendant was removed in the prison 
van. 
