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Cases connected to this place (90)

• Wilson and Company v. Hamilton and Company

  James Wilson and Company of Kilmarnock manufactured woolen carpets for sale in London. Since 1762, Malcolm Hamilton and Company had served as James Wilson & Company's London agent . The dispute related to a large quanti…
• Walker v. Interlocutor

  The pursuer acted as agent of Smith, Johnstone and Company in Glasgow to buy some goods on its behalf. After one of the partners of the company died, it fell into a disorder and became bankrupt. Mr. Walker was appointed…
• John Boog and Attorney v. The Common Agent in the Ranking of Margaret Watt's Creditors

  A Scotsman named Daniel Morgan went to London and purchased goods on credit from John Boog, a merchant. Morgan then departed for India as steward on an East India ship, leaving his wife Margaret Watt in Dundee. Morgan d…
• Elizabeth Wallace v. William Gordon and Others

  Janet Buchanan executed a settlement that made her niece Grizel Gordon the residuary beneficiary of her estate. The settlement provided that if Grizel died before marrying, the substitute beneficiary would be Elizabeth …
• Hugh Baillie and Archibald M'Harg v. John Bland

  Actor George Anne Bellamy granted four promissory notes to pursuer Hugh Baillie but failed to make timely payments. Subsequently, Bellamy and actor West Digges granted Baillie a bond of corroboration, promising to pay t…
• Robertson v. Craig

  This case concerns a dispute over two bills drawn upon Robert Craig by Williams, Tebb, and Williams, in favor of their trustee Alexander Robertson. Both bills were for the value of calico received by Craig, a merchant i…
• Hammond, Birket, and Smith v. Marshall

  Hammond, Birket, and Smith, pursuers, attempted to arrest (legally claim) funds in the hands of Claud Marshall, a writer in Glasgow, on the ground that Claud possessed funds belonging to their debtor William Marshall. W…
• Blands v. Ewing and Company, and Dinwiddie

  This case was about the liability of individuals who endorsed a dishonored promissory note. Walter Ewing and Company purchased the note from Robert Dinwiddie, a bank cashier, and remitted it to Bland and Company in Engl…
• Mure v. Clark

  In this case, the pursuers sought restitution for a bill drawn by Baron Mure and Andrew Stewart, and payable to John Baird. According to the pursuers, Baird had agreed to pay the bill’s value into their account at the T…
• Alexander Dick Junior v. William Richardson

  Alexander Dick Junior sought suspension of a Glasgow magistrates' decree enforcing payment of £26:15:2 against him, alleging procedural and evidentiary flaws in the underlying action and disputing the law account charge…
• Henry Peirse and Others v. Mrs Elizabeth Ross

  Mrs Elizabeth Ross defended her adjudication of multiple Ayrshire lands against objections by Henry Peirse and others, asserting her right as heir and the validity of her Crown charter in response to their claims of pri…
• Cadell v. Johnstone

  John Cadell of Cockenzie pursued John Johnstone, printer in Edinburgh. Johnstone petitioned the Court to alter its recent interlocutor, and Cadell filed answers opposing the petition. The defender subsequently submitted…
• 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…
• General Greme's Trustees v. Thomas Bruce

  Thomas Bruce pursued General Greme's Trustees to void his purchase of the Braco estate, alleging the trustees had concealed a material alteration to the course of Keir Burn that diminished the property's value and safet…
• 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 Farquharson v. Alexander Keay

  James Farquharson pursued Alexander Keay regarding the lands of Wester Kinloch, asserting a pre-emption right under the feudal charter against the vassal’s sale to third parties. Farquharson sought to strike out or clog…
• Bell v. King

  James Bell, Sheriff-Clerk of Berwickshire, pursued an action of divorce against his spouse Isobel King, alleging she had committed adultery with their lodger Thomas Purves. King denied the charge and sought to lead evid…
• Ilay Ferrier v. William Morehead

  Ilay Ferrier, Esquire, Colonel of the late Scotch Brigade, petitioned the Court to overturn the freeholders' rejection of his claim to be enrolled as a freeholder of Stirlingshire, which William Morehead of Herbertshire…
• Creditors of David Currie v. William Hannay

  The creditors of David Currie pursued William Hannay regarding whether articles of roup imposed a binding obligation. Hannay petitioned the Court to alter its recent interlocutor, and John Currie, as eldest son and appa…
• 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…
• Alexander Geddes and Allan Clark v. Jean Bull

  Alexander Geddes and Allan Clarke petitioned the Court to alter Lord Dreghorn's interlocutor in their action against Jean Bull. Based on the single document cataloged for this case.
• 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…
• Thomas Cranstoun v. James-Ann M'Dowal, and her Factor loco tutoris

  Thomas Cranstoun, Writer to the Signet and trustee for the creditors of the late Reverend Dr. John M'Farlan, sued Miss James-Ann M'Dowall and her factor to recover dividends drawn from the doctor's estate by creditors o…
• 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…
• Corse, et al v Kibble

  James Kibble, defender in an action raised by Robert Corse, John Black, James Buchanan, and Archibald Buchanan, petitioned to alter the court’s interlocutor, arguing that a resolution of 11 July binding the partners to …