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with that of several of his assistants, as well as that of several 
prominent veterinary and human sanitarians, this state board 
had placed in quarantine about one hundred and thirty cattle 
affected in varying degrees with actinomycosis, and refused 
to allow the affected animals or their carcasses to be placed 
upon the market, and finally, except those who died in quar¬ 
antine or were destroyed of the purpose for making autopsies, 
were shipped to Chicago and “ tanked ” and their products 
used for commercial purpoes. 
Mr. Greenhut and his associates in ownership brought 
suit to recover the value of the cattle for beef purposes at a 
sound meat valuation. 
Their first witness was Dr. Hickman, chief inspector for 
the Bureau of Animal Industry at Chicago, Ill. 
In his direct evidence he maintained that actinomycosis 
was transmissible by inoculation from animal to animal and 
from animal to man. He had had an extensive experience 
with the disease and had studied it extensively in connection 
with his duties as a meat inspector. 
On cross-examination he became badly confused, admitted 
that he had made no critical study of the disease, had seen 
?io post-mortem examinations worthy of relation, knew nothing 
of the disease in man, did not know how many cases of actin¬ 
omycosis had been discovered and reported in man in his 
own city during the past year, was certain that man could 
not get the disease from affected cattle but that they most 
likely contracted the disease by eating barley or grass. 
After admitting that the actinomyces found on vegetation, 
in affected animals, and in man were all identical, and that man 
or animals might contract the disease by micro-organism from 
vegetation becoming transplanted to an abraded surface or 
other suitable ground for growth, he was unable to explain 
why the actinomyces growing in animal tissues were not 
equally competent to cause actinomycosis in other animals or 
man in like conditions. In his capacity as inspector of export 
cattle he admitted that he refused to tag for exportation cattle 
affected with actinomycosis, and when pressed for his reasons 
for condeming these for live export after he had sworn their 
