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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
“317.—Exhibitor: Mr. Henry J. Hopkins, Moulton Grange Farm, 
Northampton. Breeder: Lady Wake, Pitsford Hall, Northampton. 
‘ Grand Patriot 2d,’ roan, calved April 9, 1874; got by ‘ Grand Patriot 5 
(31312); dam ‘ Graceful, 5 by ‘ Second Cherry Duke’ (28170); grand- 
dam 4 Ruby, 5 by ‘ Crown Prince 5 (21510); great granddam 4 Rosamond,’ 
by 4 12th Duke of Oxford 5 (19633); great-great-granddam by ‘May 
Duke’ (13320). ‘Grand Patriot’ won first prize at Birmingham 
Show (Aston Park), 1873, as well as other prizes ;” and upon that 
representation Mr. Allsopp’s farm bailiff bought him for 115 guineas. 
In May, 1875, he was put to service with some of the best cows in Mr. 
Allsopp’s herd, and proved such a good stock getter that between that 
date and August, 1877, he had fifty-eight calves. Instead of the calves 
being superior animals, however, as they would have been if the bull 
had had the pedigree he was represented to have, all the animals worked 
gradually back to the original common stock, many having black, 
grey, or dirty noses, and nearly all showing the doubtful character of 
some unknown breed. A letter was received from the Shorthorn Society 
throwing doubts on the ancestry of 44 Grand Patriot 2d, 55 and the result 
of Mr. Allsopp’s incpiiries through his law agent was to establish the 
following facts :—In 1870 a Mr. Cottrell Dormer, now of Westmoreland, 
but then living at Courteen Hill, not far from where defendant lived, 
sold two cows to Mr. Drury Wake, of Pitsford, Northamptonshire, for 
£30. One of the cows was a white cow with a black nose. Mr. Wake 
kept the cow until the 16th September, and then put her to a good 44 5s. 
bull 55 belonging to a neighbour, and in the following June she produced 
a light roan cow calf. On the 23rd June, 1873, this calf was taken to 
Mr. Hopkins 5 shorthorn bull “ Grand Patriot,’ and in due time produced 
a bull calf. At the time of serving Mr. Hopkins made some remarks 
about the heifer, and said if the calf was a bull he would give £5 for it; 
and accordingly, as the calf was a bull, it was sold to Mr. Hopkins for 
that sum. That was the history of 4 ‘ Grand Patriot 2d.” Its granddam, 
the white cow with the black nose, which originally belonged to Mr. 
Dormer, was called 44 Ruby,” and its dam, the light roan, was named 
44 Graceful.” The dam was stated in the show catalogue to be by 
44 Second Cherry Duke.” This bull was selected as the grandsire because 
it was a highly descended bull, but unfortunately for the success of Mr. 
Hopkins, and fortunately for the proof of the fraud, 44 Second Cherry 
Duke” was not sold to Mr. Dormer until June, 1871, while it was 
alleged by defendant to have served 44 Graceful” in May, 1871. A short 
time before the Birmingham Show in 1875, Reuben Moore, a man in 
the employ of the defendant, went to Tucker, the bailifF of Mr. Drury 
Wake, and told him that his master was going to show the bull at the 
exhibition, and asked him to sign a form of entry showing the name of 
the breeder. Tucker did so, and put the name of Lady Wake. Some 
time before this defendant had gone to Mr. Gardner, and inquired the 
number of 44 Second Cherry Duke ” in the 4 Herd-Book, 5 and used that 
bull’s name as being the sire of 44 Graceful.” Among the witnesses ex¬ 
amined were Mr. Lythall, Birmingham, and Mr. H. J. Hine, secretary of 
the Shorthorn Society. Mr. William Houseman, on being examined, 
deponed that he was the confidential manager of Mr. Thornton, the 
shorthorn auctioneer, and had been connected with shorthorns for thirty- 
five years, He had gone over that portion of Mr. Allsopp’s herd which 
was the produce of 44 Grand Patriot 2d,” and he estimated the total de¬ 
preciation at £1043, Mr. Strafford, London, was also examined, and 
said the pedigree had been very cleverly put in, the crosses having been 
judicious. He had examined the herd, and saw that there was a terrible 
