VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 769 
Mr. Barlrim. —Could you venture an opinion as to what produced the 
lameness ? 
Witness. —I looked at the heel, and the horse had very low heels, and 
he was shod according to it. I should think that was to keep the frog off 
the ground as much as possible. A horse that would work well on a 
farm would go lame when it came on the streets. I have known many 
such instances. If his feet would have stood, this would have proved a 
serviceable horse about the Bath streets. 
Mr, Roioland. —Don’t you suppose there are hard roads about a firm ? 
Witness. —By no means. By going on the road one day, and the farm 
another, he might not “ show lame.” I am not in Mr. Benjamin’s employ. 
I "ot half-a-crown for takinof the horse down. 
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' Mr. Rowland. —Oh, I don’t see 2s. 6d. down in the account. 
Mr. Bartrum. —Then that’s 2s. 6d. more for Mr. Benjamin (laughter). 
We ought to have increased the damages by 2s. 6d. (laughter). 
Mr. Thomas Broad, veterinary surgeon at Bath, where he has been in 
practice some years, was then called, and he said: I remember a horse 
being brought to me from Mr. Benjamin to be examined, and I am the 
author of the certificate put in to-day. The horse had naturally badly 
formed feet—weak, low heels, with very little crust, and he was quite 
lame in the near fore-foot. 
Mr. Bartrum. —Should you say that the lameness was irremediable ? 
Witness. —Yes. The horse was not able to bear road-work, but the 
immediate cause was the thick shoes to keep the frog off the ground, and 
they caused a greater amount of pressure on the heels, which were weak. 
Mr. Bartrum. —Is it your opinion that the horse was sound ? 
Witness. —In my judgment the horse was certainly not a sound horse. 
Even shod with leather he was not a situable horse for road work—the 
feet were not fit for road work at all. 
His Honour. —That was from their natural formation ? 
Witness. —It was. If that horse had been worked on soft land. It might 
not have gone lame, although it might have occasionally worked on the 
road. A journey of twenty-five miles on the hard road would have an 
effect on the horse. With such feet as that it might not necessarily 
produce lameness ; but if repeated for three or four days I should ex¬ 
pect to find it. I kept the horse for several days. The horse was off 
six and rising seven. I believe that opinion to be correct. 
Cross-examined.—I saw the lameness as soon as the horse came. A 
cart-horse ought not to be put off a walk; he ought not to go more 
than five or six miles an hour. The shoes were taken off both feet, and 
I examined the feet thoroughly. I think such a journey from Tan-hill 
to Bath as I have heard described, might have caused lameness. In 
re-examination witness said he should not call such a horse a serviceable 
horse. 
Mr. Henri/ Hussey, veterinary surgeon, of Devizes, said a horse with 
low weak heels would not answer the description of a sound horse. 
Horses with low heels can at no time stand the road; they may not go 
lame the first, second, or third journey, but they are sure to ultimately. 
A journey from Tan-hill to Bath might produce the lameness; but the 
disease of the horn must be of long standing, and might take a long time 
before it would show. 
Mr. Bartrum proposed to recall the plaintiff, in order that he might be 
asked a question with reference to the time of the journey ; but 
Mr. Rowland strongly objected to this, and urged that his learned 
friend saw where the shoe pinched, and therefore he wanted to alter it. 
Mr. Bart rum.--1 think the horse-shoe pinched (laugliter). I thought 
