Pursuer seeks legal separation and aliment, but court dismisses due to insufficiently specific allegations and lack of grounds for separation a mensa et thora.
Answers by David Cable, Defender, to the argument of Mr John Mitchell, asserting that the pursuer's delay was caused by shared solicitors in Bombay and that the defender acted improperly by withholding proof opportunities.
Shipowner John Mitchell sues former master David Cable for accounting of voyage earnings and expenses from August 1842 to June 1844, arbitrated by John Barr Cumming with decree issued in 1846.
Lord Ordinary appoints revised minutes and record for First Division review, granting warrant to enrol, in reduction case of John Mitchell v. David Cable over disputed voyage and proof omission.
Defender claims wages and expenses from pursuer after voyage; pursuer counters with damages for alleged deviation and misconduct, leading to arbitration and contested judgment.
George Dempster, miller and landowner, obliges to pay fair value for tenants’ improvements—stone houses, fences, stables—upon removal, confirmed by brother W. S. Dempster; valuation reports cover machinery, dykes, buildings.
Petition of Moses Steven asking the Court to alter an entry in the Minute-Book of the Register of Abbreviates of Adjudication, which incorrectly states the decree was for debt rather than for implement of a feudal title.
Petition of Mrs. Eliza Hamilton or Carmichael, asking the Court to appoint James Howie as factor loco tutoris for her minor children Grace Bunting Carmichael and Jessie Edmond Carmichael.