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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
sary, did you ?—Yes, I did ; eight or nine days. I could not say to a 
day. 
John Kent called. 
Mr. Edlin. —Mr. Kent, you are so well known in this court, and, 
indeed, in other courts that I need not ask your name, nor whether 
you are a veterinary surgeon. We all know you well, and my learned 
friend Mr. Stone has shown this morning that he knows you particularly 
Well. 
[Mr. Stone refused to open the case while I was in court; and on the 
judge saying that I should remain, he sat down, and said that if I re¬ 
mained in court he would not open the case at all.] 
Mr. Edlin continued.—Mr. Stone has given particular proof this 
morning that your presence gives him some uneasiness. 
Mr. Stone. —Mr. Kent’s presence does not give me any uneasiness. 
We all know him, and that he cannot be biassed; but this morning I 
did particularly object to his being present while I opened the case to 
the jury, because 1 know that nothing escapes his observation; and as 
he did not see the horse for twelve months after the accident, I was 
apprehensive that I might put him in possession of facts or state¬ 
ments which I am aware he knows well how to turn to account. 
(Mr. Kent was excluded the court during Mr. Stone’s opening the 
case to the jury.) 
Mr. Edlin. —Mr. Kent, you did eventually examine the horse?—I 
examined it on June 29th of this year. I examined him very particu¬ 
larly, knowing that I should have to give evidence in this court. 
Mr. Edlin. —Please to state to the court and jury how you could 
form a satisfactory opinion. 
Mr. Kent. —Had there been a serious injury, with sloughing, there 
would have been a permanent cicatrix of the skin and loss of hair, and 
also thickening and hardening of the cellular membrane (the tissue 
which connects all parts together, and which butchers blow up or fill 
with air in a shoulder of veal), which, by being attached to the skin, 
would, when diseased, show that the elasticity of the integuments had 
suffered ; but in this case there is no cicatrix, and I could pull up 
the skin between my thumb and finger as easily as in any other place. 
Mr. Edlin. —Was there any injury so serious as to render the horse 
unable to work, and require such a long rest as you have heard of to¬ 
day?—I am certain there was not. It appears that the horse worked 
the same day, and travelled after the collision twelve miles with a load 
of potatoes, and nearly twenty miles home again, and that there was 
neither lameness nor swelling. This being the case, he could have con¬ 
tinued his ordinary work without inconvenience to himself or damage 
to his owner. 
Mr. Edlin. —Then, Mr. Kent, you are of opinion that the horse was 
not seriously injured, nor permanently depreciated in value?—I am 
certain that the animal was not injured to an extent either to interrupt 
his work or to affect his value. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Stone. 
Then, Mr. Kent, am I to understand you, that the horse was not suf¬ 
ficiently injured to render medical skill and attendance necessary?—I 
have stated that as a fact (not as an opinion), and I now state it again. 
Then how do you account for Mr. Cade dressing it and repeating his 
visit?—I am not here to account for the acts of any one else but my¬ 
self; but I have no doubt that Mr. Cade, having said that the horse was 
seriously injured, thought it advisable to dress, it to keep its owner 
quiet. 
