4 Dec 1782
The petitioners, a current counsellor and a former counsellor of the burgh of Jedburgh, alleged that an election was influenced by bribery and corruption. They asked the Court of Session to set aside the results and find that the candidates favored by the apparent minority had been legally elected.
Documents in this case (1)
People involved
- Michael Marshall — Petitioner
- Richard Dick — Petitioner
- John Carre, of Cavers — Named in case documents
- Francis Charteris — Named in case documents
- Robert Haswell — Named in case documents
- Thomas Winterup — Named in case documents
- Archibald Caverhill — Named in case documents
- John Rutherford — Named in case documents
- James Murray — Named in case documents
- Adam Scott — Named in case documents
- James Haswell — Named in case documents
- Robert Wood — Named in case documents
- Dr. Robert Lindsay — Named in case documents
- Andrew Lookup — Named in case documents
- Dr. William Elliot — Named in case documents
- Robert Anderson — Named in case documents
- John Chisolm — Named in case documents
- William Renwick — Named in case documents
- George Borthwick — Named in case documents
- James Davidson — Named in case documents
- William Hall — Named in case documents
- Alexander Hill — Named in case documents
- William Huggan — Named in case documents
- Archibald Preston — Named in case documents
- William Fergrieve — Named in case documents
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The petitioners, a current counsellor and a former counsellor of the burgh of Jedburgh, alleged that an election was influenced by bribery and corruption. They asked the Court of Session to set aside the results and find that the candidates favored by the apparent minority had been legally elected.
Published Reports
William Morison, The Decisions of the Court of Session (1811), pg. 1887
Sir David Dalyrymple of Hailes, Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, from 1766 to 1791 (1826), pg. 913