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cover one guinea paid to Mr. Kent, the patriarchal and skilled veteri¬ 
nary surgeon of Bristol, for making a post-mortem examination of the 
animal. 
Mr. Stone, of the Western Circuit, instructed by Mr. Trenerry, of 
Bristol, appeared for the plaintiff, and the defence was conducted by 
Mr. Edlin, instructed by Mr. Chadwick, of Long Ashton. 
George Parry, the plaintiff, deposed to purchasing the cow on the 
1st March last, when, in reply to his queries, the defendant said, “ she 
is all right and sound ; I’ll wrrant her, as I bred her, and she has never 
been off my farm.” She had a calf at her side. After the price had 
been paid, the defendant said, “ she is perfectly sound, and a good 
milker.” She died on 14th April last. In cross-examination he denied 
that he bought the cow upon condition to return her within a week, if 
he did not like her. He admitted having sold a cow about a week pre¬ 
viously which had died through a “ chill.” After that, he had his stall 
whitewashed. He fed his cows on mangold twice a day, and sometimes 
on chaff and grains ; the cow he had from Edwards would not eat the 
latter. He fed her partly on dry hay. Had never known cows suffer 
in health through being put under cover after running in grass. 
Robert Davis, a butcher, corroborated the evidence of warranty, and, 
in cross-examination, said the calf was healthy, and exhibited no ap¬ 
pearance of having come from a diseased mother. Replying to Mr. 
Stone, he said he saw the cow after death; the lungs and liver were 
much diseased. 
Wellstead, the plaintiff’s servant, stated that he had the care of his mas¬ 
ter’s cows. From the first, Edwards’ cow would not eat her food, and was 
very restless; gave only eight or nine quarts of milk a day ; she gradu¬ 
ally got worse, and gave no milk at all for five days before death; she 
had difficulty in breathing, and continually “panted.” 
Mr. Pearson, a farrier, saw the cow on 11th April last; she was then 
in a dying state; prescribed a nourishing meal for her; she laboured 
under diseased lungs of a chronic nature ; her breathing was very bad 
and hard ; the disease must have existed for many months ; saw her again 
on the lHth ; she still wasted; next day saw her dead; inspected her 
inside ; the lungs and liver were diseased, and of an incurable character; 
the internal appearances confirmed his previous opinion that the disease 
had existed several months. 
Cross-examined—He advised the application of a blister, or mustard 
plaster, the first time he saw the animal. It is applied in cases of 
acute inflammation. The stall in which the cow was kept was perfectly 
“ sweet.” 
William Jarvis , a butcher, opened the carcass and found the lungs 
very much diseased. They had partly grown on to the side. Upon 
lifting them they fell from off the windpipe, as if rotten. 
Mr. John Kent, M.R.C.V.S., made a post-mortem examination of 
the animal on 15th April. The lungs were generally diseased through¬ 
out. A great portion of the antero-inferior parts possessed large 
scattered tubercles, and in some places were carnotized. The heart was 
attenuated and pale, as in cases of abdominal dropsy, or what is com¬ 
monly styled “rot” in sheep. The right lobe of the liver was of a dark- 
mahogany colour, completely disorganised for its proper functions. The 
texture was so softened and broken down that on pressure with the 
finger it could be divided through its whole substance, without separat¬ 
ing its peritoneal covering. The cow had probably been in a diseased 
state upwards of six months. There was a peculiar absence of any 
inflammatory symptoms. 
