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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
Witness. —Mr. Jones. 
Mr. Barirum. —There are a good many Mr. Jones’s (laughter). 
Witness. —Mr. Jones of Marlborough. We had worked the horse for 
some time. I think we bought him when he was “ two off.” I forget 
what part of the year we bouglit him. I have used the horse for the 
usual farm purposes—he would go on the road, and also on the farm. 
Mr. Bartrum. —Was not one of your horses given to shying out his 
fore-feet ? 
Witness. —I can’t say, I never shod him (laughter). 
Mr. Bartrum. —You know where the shoe pinches? 
Witness. —We have a horse that throws out his fore feet, and knocks 
off his shoes sometimes. 
William Martin, carter for Mr. Holmes, at Wootton Hi vers, said he 
took this bay horse to Tan-hill fair. During the two years witness was 
carter, the horse was put to any sort of work, plough, harrow, dung-cart, 
fore or behind, or any place where you liked to put him (laughter). He 
had never gone lame during the two years. 
Cross-examined.—The horse has been put out to grass, night and 
morning. My master had five cart-horses, but we had not work enough 
for more than three. The pony sold was one of the horses rested. The 
horse sold to Mr. Benjamin had been worked every day for three months. 
IJis Honour. — Had the horse been on the road ? 
Witness. —Yes, it had been for eight or ten days before it was sold. 
We never had a farrier to him all the time we had him (a laugh). 
John Goddard, a labourer in the employ of the defendant, said he went 
with these horses to Tan-hill fair; Mr. Benjamin came up, asked the 
price of the horse, looked at the horse’s mouth, and witness told him he 
was “ five off.” He told plaintiff if the horse had any faults he could see 
them. Witness had seen this horse for two years, and he knew he had 
been on the road and farm. He had never seen the animal lame. He 
had been working for Mr. Holmes, on and off, for three years, and from 
before last harvest constantly. 
William Tidier, farrier at Wootton Rivers, said he knew this horse of 
Mr. Holmes’s, and he had shod him since last Christmas. He had seen 
nothing particular about the formation of his feet. Some little time 
previous to the fair he did not “ shoe him up ” for the fair. He had often 
seen the horse before the fair, in a cart or wagon, and to his knowledge 
had never seen him lame. 
In cross-examination the witness said he did not know how many times 
he had shod this horse in a year; he had not his book with him (a laugh). 
He knew that the horse had been several times on the road. He had 
shod about five horses of Mr. Holmes’s. 
Mr. Bartrum. —They were brought to you, I suppose, when they wanted 
shoeing ? 
Witness. —No, they were not, for we attended on them at the stable 
(laughter). 
Mr. Bartrum. —How many geldings had Mr. Holmes got ? 
Witness. —I forget whether they are geldings or mares. 
Mr. William Bucheridge, veterinary surgeon, of Hungerford, on being 
called, was shown Mr. Broad’s certificate. He then stated that a horse 
with broad and flat fore-feet was not necessarily unsound. Horses with 
flat feet were generally as sound as horses with ordinary feet. They were 
generally sounder when they had been working on the roads. Witness 
had heard the journey from Tan-hill to Bath described by the witnesses. 
Mr. Bcwland. —Might a horse have been sound that morning, and have 
become permanently unsound from injuries received on that journey ? 
