NEWS AND ITEMS 
741 
OBITUARY. 
The death of Dr. W. W. Custer, of Reading, Pa., is an¬ 
nounced as having taken place on Dec. ist, 1895. 
REVIEWS WANTED. 
Any one having double copy of the August number, ’95, 
will oblige the Editor by sending the same to the office of 
the Review. 
NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Qualifications of Veterinarians.— A somewhat pecu¬ 
liar case has just been decided by the supreme court of 
Michigan, which will be of much interest to such owners of 
horses as have been victimized by quacks, who professed 
to have the necessary skill to treat intelligently diseases of 
the horse. The facts in the case briefly stated, are these: 
The plaintiff was called in to treat the defendant’s horse, 
which, however, received no benefit from the treatment, and 
when the bill for services, amounting to three dollars and fifty 
cents, was rendered the defendant refused to pay it. The 
alleged veterinarian then entered suit in justice court, and, 
after the jury had disagreed in the first trial of the case, se¬ 
cured a verdict in the second. From this verdict the defend¬ 
ant appealed to the circuit court, in which two trials were also 
had, the second resulting in favor of the defendant. The 
plaintiff, whose name is Conkey, then appealed the case to the 
supreme court, and the opinion handed down in the case is 
well worth perusal by those whose business necessitates the 
periodical resort to veterinary skill. Without doubt the car¬ 
rying of a suit in which the sum of three dollars and fifty 
cents only was at issue from the justice court to the circuit 
court, and from there to the supreme court, was an expensive 
proceeding to the parties involved, but outsiders may profit 
richly by it without cost to themselves. The opinion of the 
supreme court is lengthy and well digested, and sustains the 
circuit judge in the following postulate : “ The plaintiff, by 
