§ SIR JERVOISE JERVOISEsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been directed to an Action, tried at the Oxford Assizes in March 1866, in which £111 was awarded as compensation to the plaintiff in consequence of his being obliged to dispose of twenty-two cows at considerable loss, the rinderpest having been communicated to them by a cow sold to him by the defendant; and, whether the case of "Mullet v. Mason" will constitute a precedent in compensative claims for loss sustained through infection?
§ MR. WALPOLEsaid, in reply, that in the case in question the defendant had falsely represented to the plaintiff that the cow was not diseased when he knew that it was diseased, and the Court held that he was liable to the consequences of that false statement. But unless similar circumstances should arise in any other case he did not know how it could be drawn into a precedent.