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"'warrantor, and not to the second or any more remote warrantor.
"'Thus, if a farmer in Somerset sells milk with a warranty to a
"'dealer in Paddington, who sells it with a warranty to a milkman
"'in Clerkenwell, proceedings might be taken under the warranty
"'sections against the Paddington dealer in the Clerkenwell Court,
"'but if the case against the dealer was dismissed and the Local
"'Authority decided to take similar proceedings against the
"'Somerset farmer, it might be necessary that those proceedings
"'should be taken in Somersetshire."
"'Several suggestions have been offered by various Local
"'Authorities for the amendment of the law. Two of these
"'suggestions may be mentioned. The one is that whenever
"'a warranty is pleaded the Local Authority can have the
"'summons adjourned in order to apply for a summons, or in the
"'case of successive warranties, for summonses against the
"'warrantor or warrantors, and the Magistrate shall then hear the
"'two or more summonses as one case, so as to decide who is the
"'guilty party. The other is that the warranty sections should be
"'repealed, and the seller of the milk be left to his remedy at
"'common law against the person from whom he purchased it.
"'There is little doubt that the latter of these two suggestions
"'is the one that would commend itself to the agricultural
"'community.' "
SACRAMENTAL WINE.
In August, 1906, a request was received that a particular sample of wine
should be analysed. The circumstances were as under.
It appears that a considerable difference of opinion prevailed with regard to
the nature of the sacramental wine used in one of the churches in Inverness.
The wine in question was purchased direct from a Wine Merchant in the
City, who was stated to have largely advertised it as non-alcoholic pure
grape juice. The authorities at Inverness, however, had reason to believe
that it was not a natural wine, but had resulted from an artificial process.
The request was acceded to, and a sample taken, with the result that the
Public Analyst for the City certified it as "a sample of grape juice, unfer"mented
and sterilised." That wine was, therefore, found to be exactly
as represented by the vendor.