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Mr. Palmer’s carriage into a ditch, and on another it nearly put a 
mare on which Miss Palmer was riding into a similar predicament. 
In March the horse was sent to a livery stable of a Mr. Strange, at 
Bath, and Mr. Strange having driven it found that it shied at almost 
everything. On one occasion it showed a disposition to back into 
the river, and on another an old woman had some difficulty in 
getting out of its way. Eventually the animal was sent to Aldridge’s 
repository in London, where it was sold for thirty-eight guineas. 
Mr. Palmer was called, and bore out the statement of the learned 
counsel in regard to the terms of the purchase. The horse was sent 
to Mr. Clark, at Melksham, for a fortnight, and two days after it 
came home, his (Mr. Palmer’s) coachman drove it to Trowbridge 
station. It shied at a heap of dirt and some water in the road. It 
shied going to Trowbridge on the 14th or 16th February, and again 
on returning from Beckhampton, on the 2nd or 3rd of March, when 
the spring of the carriage was broken. On the 1st of March it ran 
off the road on to a grass field, and the carriage was shaken a good 
deal. It was a dangerous horse for a gentleman to use. It was not 
quiet, either to ride or drive. 
In cross-examination, Mr. Palmer said that he did not know that 
he ever had a horse that did not shy more or less. It depended, 
however, a good deal upon its “freshness.” He might be getting- 
more nervous in riding than he was when he was younger, lie 
denied having told Mr. Collett, of Keevil, that the horse went on 
very well. What he said was that in his short experience of it he 
found it to shy a little. He admitted having told Mr. Collett that if 
the horse turned out as it had been represented to him he should 
be suited for life. He did not know to whom the horse was sold 
at Aldridge’s. 
Mr. Palmer’s evidence was supported by Miss Palmer, his coach- 
man, and by Mr. Strange ; after which 
Mr. Broad , veterinary surgeon, of Bath, was called and gave it 
as his opinion that the horse suffered from cataract in the off eye 
of at least twelve months’ standing. The disease would account for 
its shying and render it unfit for a gentleman’s use. The sum 
realised at Aldridge’s was a fair price. He w r as not interested in 
the sale. 
In cross-examination, he denied that all horses shied. He had 
one that did not do so, even if shut up in the stable for a month. 
Mr. Cole .—What will you take for such an extraordinary animal ? 
Witness .— It is not for sale at any price. 
Mr. Cole .—I should think not. 
Other witnesses were called on behalf of the plaintiff, at the close 
of whose case Mr. Cole addressed the jury for the defence. The 
learned counsel ridiculed the idea of the horse being “ a confirmed 
and inveterate shyer” at the time of the sale, in face of the fact of 
its being kept by the plaintiff for ten weeks without a word of com¬ 
plaint. Mr. Cannon had it in his possession for two years and a 
half; he would tell them that there was not a more honest horse 
in the world; and that nothing would have induced him to sell it 
