VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
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The plaintiff said : I am a veterinary surgeon, living at Oundle, in 
this county, In July, 1867,1 was at the Royal Agricultural Society’s 
Show, at Bury, and bought a horse there, on the 19th of July. I 
gave the horse to my man, Kisbee, to be sent to Oundle. Its value 
was about £60, but I did not pay that, as I gave another horse in 
exchange. I saw the horse put in the horse-box, in a siding in the 
show-yard. He went in quietly, as well as we expected a colt 
would do. He went in once, and as the halter was a rotten one he 
came out and went in again. The horse was perfectly sound after 
he was put in the box. My man went in with him. I afterwards 
went down to the station, and heard the noise of two carriages 
coming into collision with each other. I ran upstairs into the yard, 
and saw an engine behind the box, close to it, and a great crowd 
round it. The box was close to the train, but’was not coupled to it. 
There had been a crash, and when I got up the porters were open¬ 
ing the box. When it was opened I saw that part of the partition 
was lying smashed on the floor, and that the horse was down on 
his haunches, with his legs under him. The porters endeavoured 
to lift him up. They untied the halter, which had not broken, and 
got the horse up. My servant, who was in the box, had his hat 
smashed. He was in the coupee box, at the head of the horses. 
They wanted to put the horse in a fresh box, and I said the horse 
was quiet enough, and he came on in that box. I complained at 
the time of the manner in which the box had been pushed up to 
the train. The beam at the top of the box had been knocked out 
of its position. The colt appeared to stand uneasily, and I told 
the railway people at Bury I should complain to the authorities at 
head-quarters. I got in the box with the horse, and when we got to 
Thrapston station, I saw the horse taken out of the box. He was 
very lame, trembled exceedingly, and appeared like a horse which 
liad* suffered concussion of the spine or of the brain. There was 
a drooping action of the hind quarters, which indicated injury to 
the spine. I sent to Mr. Arnold, veterinary surgeon, to look at 
the horse; and the same night I wrote to the general manager, 
stating that my horse had been injured, and asking him to send 
some one to look at it. 
The letters which transpired between the plaintiff and the general 
manager and the superintendent were here put in and read. The 
plaintiff wrote requesting that a veterinary surgeon or some one 
else might be sent to examine the horse, and the reply which he re¬ 
ceived was that inquiries had been made from the company’s ser¬ 
vants at Bury, and it appeared that the horse had been injured by 
its own restiveness. Several letters passed, but they were all to 
the same effect, the company positively disclaiming any responsi¬ 
bility, and asserting that no violence was used in attaching the box 
to the train. 
I then instructed Mr. Law to write to the company. In addi¬ 
tion to the other injuries there were skin wounds on the legs. The 
horse was well fed, and I did my best to restore it. At last he got 
so weak I was obliged to support him on slings, and in February 
