VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 701 
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Veterinary Jurisprudence. 
JACKSON V. BADDILEY. 
Mr. Overend, Q.C., with Mr. Wills, appeared for the plaintiff, 
and Mr. Seymour, Q.C., with Mr. Ewins Bennett, for the defendant. 
The plaintiff, H. W. Jackson, is a corn merchant at Wakefield, and 
he sued the defendant, who is a farmer residing at South Kirby, near 
Pontefract, for a breach of warranty. In April last plaintiff was in 
the hunting field, and saw a brown gelding belonging to the 
defendant ridden by a horse breaker. Seeing the horse go well, he 
had an interview with the defendant next day with a view to pur¬ 
chasing the horse. He found it was then exceedingly stiff, which 
defendant explained by saying that his man had kept the horse out 
too long after the run. There was no sale then, but on the 12th 
April plaintiff went over to defendant’s house again, and he rode the 
horse himself in a straw yard. He was very much pleased with 
him, and bought him for 3670. The receipt for the money war¬ 
ranted the horse to be perfectly sound, free from vice, and four years 
old. The plaintiff’s stables being full at the time, he arranged with 
defendant to keep the horse for a short time. Ultimately the horse 
was delivered on the 28th April. For several days afterwards the 
horse was never ridden except by a groom for exercise. Then on 
the l/th May the plaintiff got on his back and rode to Walton, 
about three miles from Wakefield, and then on to Heath. He found 
the animal was lame. On the defendant being communicated with, 
he said it was only a temporary lameness, and that it would disap¬ 
pear if he had rest. The lameness, however, did not disappear 
after a rest of ten days; and it would be shown that he had corns 
on all his feet; an enlargement of the off pastern of one hind leg, 
commonly known as “ ringbone but that the great mischief from 
which he was suffering was the commencement of navicular disease, 
which had the effect of making a horse attacked by it lame. 
Defendant refusing to take him back, the horse was sold in the 
public market on the 18th June, and was bought by defendant for 
3636. The action was brought to recover the difference between 
this sum and 367 0. The following witnesses were called in support 
of the allegation of lameness:—The plaintiff, his father-in-law 
(Mr. Marsden), Mr. M. E. Naylor, veterinary surgeon, Wakefield; 
and Mr. S. F. Fallding, veterinary surgeon, Wakefield. 
Mr. Seymour said the performance of the horse in the hunting 
field refuted the idea that he had navicular disease; but it would 
