Cases connected to this place (92)

  • Francis Garbet and Company v. Their Creditors
    Francis Garbet, Charles Gascoigne, and Peter Capper entered into a partnership under the name Francis Garbet and Company. The partnership was in the business of conveying goods to and from London and other places along …
  • Jean Coalston, Pursuer v. Archibald Stewart, Merchant in Queensferry, Defender
    The late George Stewart, merchant, who had filed for bankruptcy in London in 1749, owed money to Peter Coalston, the petitioner's brother, who had not participated in the bankruptcy arrangement. Later, Stewart started m…
  • Burden alias Campbell v. Campbells and Robertson
    Mrs Elizabeth Burden, alias Campbell, pursued the Campbells and Robertson as heir of her predeceased son John Campbell, claiming entitlement to his share of the residue of Duncan Campbell’s estate under the will’s subst…
  • Michael M'Culloch v. William Allen
    The Reverend Mr M'Culloch pursued William Allan, schoolmaster of Bothwell, regarding a Synod sentence that had found Allan unqualified for his office. Allan petitioned the Court to remit the sentence, and M'Culloch resp…
  • David and Henry Lillie v. Mrs. Lillie or Smith, and Others
    David and Henry Lillie pursued Mrs. Lillie or Smith and others to prove the tenor of a holograph letter written by Miss Margaret Seton that their sister Catherine Lillie had destroyed, asserting that the letter directed…
  • Alexander-Charles Maitland, & Others v. Dame Helen Maitland Gibson, & Spouse
    Alexander-Charles Maitland and other heirs of entail pursued Dame Helen Maitland Gibson and her spouse regarding £7000 paid by a canal company for consent to route a canal through the entailed estate. The pursuers sough…
  • John Gordon of Auchanachy v. Grizel Ogilvie
    John Gordon of Auchanachy, pursuer, and his trustee Alexander Gordon of Whiteley, Advocate, challenged the title of Grizel, Katharine, and Anne Ogilvie, daughters of John Ogilvy, to the Estate of Balbegno, arguing that …
  • John Earl of Rothes v. John Philp
    John Philp pursued John Earl of Rothes for 5000 merks and interest due under a bond dated 1716. The Earl defended on the ground that the estate was entailed by a 1684 deed and 1687 charter, rendering it immune from ance…
  • Edinburgh Oil Gas Light Company v. Sir William Baillie of Polkemmet, Baronet, and Others, Trustees of the deceased Da…
    The Edinburgh Oil Gas Light Company raised an action against Sir William Baillie of Polkemmet and others, as trustees of the deceased shareholder David Clyne, to enforce statutory calls for unpaid shares under the Edinb…
  • James Turnbull and Malcolm Macdonald v. Sir George Home, Baronet
    James Turnbull and Malcolm Macdonald, as suspenders, sought to compel their bound apprentice Alexander M'Kenzie to return to service and argued that he could not legally enter His Majesty's Fleet as a volunteer. Sir Geo…
  • The Trustees for the Creditors of John Brough v. The Heirs of Robert Selby
    The Trustees for the Creditors of John Brough pursued the Heirs of Robert Selby regarding the extent of security afforded by a heritable bond of relief granted by Brough in 1783. The Trustees contended that the bond sec…
  • James Lee v. The Executors of Robert Watson
    James Lee pursued the executors of Robert Watson for payment of a deed of provision he had purchased at public roup from the creditors of a bankrupt. Jean Watson petitioned the Court to alter its interlocutor and remit …
  • Cunningham and Simpson v. Sir George Home, Baronet, and the Commissioners for raising Seamen at the Port of Leith
    Cunningham and Simpson petitioned the Court to alter the interlocutor of Lord Dreghorn, Ordinary on the bills, which had refused a bill of suspension in the matter of apprentices Dowie, Stewart, and Drysdale. They subse…
  • Thomas Cowan v. William Aitchison and William Walker
    Thomas Cowan, flesher in Musselburgh, pursued William Aitchison, distiller at St Clement's Wells, and William Walker, attorney in Exchequer, upon a caution bond. Aitchison and Walker petitioned the Court twice to alter …
  • John Davidson v. Alexander Kyde, and Others
    John Davidson, Esquire, trustee for Rachael Lindsay, spouse of Major James Dickson in the East India Company's service, and for his own interest, petitioned the Court to alter an interlocutor pronounced by Lord Stonefie…
  • Janet Calder v. John Wood
    John Wood, defender, sought review of interlocutors rejecting his advocation bill in an action brought by Janet Calder, contending that the citation had been defective because it was left at a lodging house he no longer…
  • Duncan Davidson and Charles Graham v. John Fraser and his Attornies
    Duncan Davidson and Charles Graham challenged an interlocutor dismissing their bond claim against George Gun Munro, contending that an English bankruptcy commission had not transferred their debt to assignees for enforc…
  • Sir William Eliott v. George and Thomas Currie
    Sir William Eliott of Stobs, Baronet, pursued George and Thomas Currie to determine whether an heir of entail could grant a lease at a diminished rent in consideration of a grassum. Eliott maintained that such a lease w…
  • Creditors of Currie v. Geddes
    The creditors of Currie, represented by their common agent in the sale and ranking of the Estate of Newlaw, petitioned the Court to alter Lord Swinton’s interlocutor. The respondents contested the creditors’ attempt to …
  • Creditors of Jackson and Esten v. Kemble (Two Folders)
    The creditors of Jackson and Esten petitioned for possession of the Edinburgh Theatre in order to manage the property under a disputed patent held by Mrs Esten. Kemble, defending as lessee and trustee of the Theatre Roy…
  • Dundas v. Baikie and others
    Sir Thomas Dundas petitioned the Court to alter an interlocutor that had ordered the allocation of teind-duties before those to which heritors held heritable rights. Robert Baikie of Tankerness and other heritors of the…
  • Fraser, Reid and Sons v. Lancaster and Jamieson
    Fraser, Reid and Sons claimed preferential rights to goods held in Coats’s custody, asserting priority based on protested bills for specific cargoes and challenging arrestments later laid by Lancaster and Jamieson. The …
  • Hamilton v. MacTaggart
    William M'Taggart answered the petition of Messrs. Hamilton and Co. and James Provan and Co., who claimed that a sale of goods was void under the 1696 Act. Based on the single document cataloged for this case.
  • Quirk v. Buchanan
    Pursuer Matthew Quirk petitioned the Court to remit the interlocutor of Lord Dreghorn refusing a bill of suspension against defender Buchanan. Based on the single document cataloged for this case.
  • Ross v. Trustees of Hugh Ross
    John Hunter, Archibald Swinton, and David Limond, as trustees for Hugh Ross of Kerse and his creditors, petitioned the Court to alter its recent interlocutor in the action brought by Ross against them. Based on the sing…

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