This case involved competing claims to the title of the lands of Board and a dispute over the validity of Robert Fleming's descendence from the Flemings of Board. In 1758, Robert Fleming and his trustee John Grant brought an action of reduction against Lady Clementina Fleming to revoke her rights to the lands of Board. In 1761, Lady Clementina and her husband Charles Elphinstone initiated this counter-suit and brought an action of reduction against Robert Fleming and John Grant, in which they claimed that Robert Fleming was an illegitimate heir of the Flemings of Board and therefore had no claim over the lands of Board under dispute.
Documents in this case (2)
People involved
- Lady Clementina Fleming Elphinstone — Pursuer
- Charles Elphinstone, Lord Elphinstone — Pursuer
- Robert Fleming, Esq. — Defender
- John Grant, of Rothmaise — Trustee/Tutor/Representative for Defender
- James Ferguson, 2nd Laird of Pitfour, Lord Pitfour — Lord Ordinary
- William Wallace, of Sauchrie — Advocate for Pursuer
- David Graeme — Advocate for Defender
- John Fleming — Named in case documents
- John Fleming, of Board — Named in case documents
- John Fleming — Named in case documents
- John Fleming, Sixth Earl of Wigton — Named in case documents
- William Fleming, Fifth Earl of Wigton — Named in case documents
- Charles Fleming, Seventh Earl of Wigton — Named in case documents
- Robert Pringle, Lord Edgefield — Named in case documents
- Agnes Fleming — Named in case documents
- John Lindsay Jr., of Covington — Named in case documents
- George Crawfurd — Named in case documents
- John Jarvie, of Achinbie — Named in case documents
- James Aitken — Named in case documents
Places
- Board (principal)
This case involved competing claims to the title of the lands of Board and a dispute over the validity of Robert Fleming's descendence from the Flemings of Board. In 1758, Robert Fleming and his trustee John Grant brought an action of reduction against Lady Clementina Fleming to revoke her rights to the lands of Board. In 1761, Lady Clementina and her husband Charles Elphinstone initiated this counter-suit and brought an action of reduction against Robert Fleming and John Grant, in which they claimed that Robert Fleming was an illegitimate heir of the Flemings of Board and therefore had no claim over the lands of Board under dispute.
