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What I understand you to say is, that under those circumstances the 
horse ought now to point the foot ?—Yes. 
But if in April he had a navicular disease, say nine months old ?—He 
would point the foot. 
You say it is matter of speculation?—Well, if you are positive he had 
the disease-- 
Mr. Justice Blackburn: —I understood him to say it was a professional 
speculation as to how long he had had the disease. 
Mr. Macaulay: —I am not asking you if he had it nine months or nine 
years, but I say, supposing he had navicular disease, which had arisen, 
say nine months before, you would not, in that case, expect the horse to 
point. Is that what I am to understand you to say ?—Decidedly I 
would. 
How many months within the time of the origin of the navicular disease 
do you expect a horse to point the foot ?—Three months. 
Did he point at the time of the sale ?—He did not. 
You are quite sure of that?—Quite positive; because I looked at him 
standing at repose, and knowing that the dispute was about the navicular 
disease, I looked at him quietly in the box. 
You are as sure as a man can be that he had not navicular disease ? 
—I say, as a professional man, that on April 7th he had not, to the best 
of my knowledge. 
Mr. Thompson seems to have said, in your hearing, that you should 
not touch the horse. I believe you had had some quarrel with Mr. 
Thompson ?—Quarrel ? 
Yes. You were his veterinary surgeon once, were you not?—No 
more than other men. 
Has not there been something unpleasant between you and Mr. 
Thompson ?—There was something between him and another man in 
my forge, and since that transaction I have neither spoken to nor 
recognised the man. 
He did not recognise you and you did not recognise him ; you did 
not recognise one another, is that so ?—Yes, of course. 
You went to prove, as a witness, on one occasion, that Mr. Thompson 
assaulted somebody ?—Yes; I went to prove that he stabbed a man in 
my forge with a piece of iron ; a drunken man. 
That he assaulted a man?—No; stabbed him with a long piece of 
pointed iron in my presence. 
Did the magistrates come to that conclusion?—Well, the other man 
was drunk. 
Mr. Serjeant O'Brien: —My lord, I must object to this line of cross- 
examination. 
Mr. Justice Blackburn: —You see, brother O’Brien, it is one of those 
things which, going to the credit of the witness, I cannot stop. 
Mr. Macaulay : —I have only one more question to ask. You say you 
gave evidence that he stabbed a man with a piece of iron, what was the 
result?—He was not convicted. He had the man brought up. He was 
the means of getting up a case against the man that he had insulted, and 
wanted to prove that he was in danger. 
Well, I believe the man was convicted or bound over, was he not, to 
keep the peace against Thompson ?—He was bound over; but it was a 
most dastardly action on the part of Thompson. 
The learned Judge then summed up the evidence to the jury. 
Mr. Justice Blackburn: —Gentlemen of the jury. The action here is 
brought upon a warranty of a horse, which it appears, on the 18 th of 
November at Rugby fair, Mr. Thompson, the plaintiff, bought from 
