Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
COUBT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Westminster, June 20. 
{Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice Hannen and 
a Special Jury .) 
BETTYES Y. DAVEY. 
The plaintiff in this case sued for the price of a horse. 
Mr. Murphy and Mr. Wormald appeared for the plaintiff; 
Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., and Mr. Barnard for the defendant. 
The plaintiff is a coachbuilder in Long Acre; the defendant is 
a gentleman living in Cornwall Terrace, Begent's Park. The 
defendant advertised for a horse, which resulted in communi¬ 
cations between the plaintiff and defendant, and finally they 
agreed that the defendant should hire the horse for three months 
for £21, he having the option of purchasing it at the end of that 
time for £63. The horse was taken by the defendant on these 
terms, and was driven by him for about three months. At the 
end of that time some communication was made to the plaintiff 
which caused him to call on the defendant, and he, according to 
his evidence, found the horse in a very bad state, with sore heels 
and fetlocks and swelled legs, which he attributed to the negli¬ 
gent keeping and taking care of the horse by the defendant; he 
thereupon demanded the £63 of the defendant as the price of the 
horse, saying that he could not take him back under the circum¬ 
stances. The defendant refused to pay the money or keep the 
horse without a warranty of soundness, as he attributed the un¬ 
soundness of the horse to lameness and disease which were 
present when he bought it. The defendant's coachman was 
during the three months taken up by the police for driving the 
horse while in an improper state. The charge was heard and 
dismissed on the defendant undertaking that this should not 
occur again. The defendant was unable, through illness, to look 
personally after his stable, and during the time that he had the 
horse it appeared to have been badly treated by the servant who 
was in his employment. 
Mr. Huddleston stated the above on behalf of the defendant, 
who he said had been in ignorance of the manner in which the 
horse had been kept; and eventually a verdict was taken by 
consent for the plaintiff for £85. 
