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Heritors of Glasgow Barony Parish seek legal opinion on voting rights at poor assessment meetings, challenging eligibility of non-cess-payers and role of ministers/elders.

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Heritors' voting rights and collector nomination in Glasgow parish poor assessments contested via statutory interpretation.

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Respondents defend election of collector by heritors, disputing eligibility of non-cess-book proprietors to vote at parish meetings.

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Court conjoins suspension, interdict, and reduction actions; record closed with parties appointed procurators for debate.

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Court declines to grant interdict on poor’s-rate collection, upholding heritor voting rights and proxy use despite procedural objections.

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Answers by Charles M'Intosh, Hugh Paterson, and Robert Murdoch to the reasons of suspension for William Robertson and Alexander Morrison, asserting that only those rated in the cess-books are entitled to vote at parish meetings.

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Defenders defend election of Robert Murdoch as collector of poors' rates, asserting majority of legally entitled voters supported him, and that proxies and protest votes were invalid under law.

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Defendants challenge an interlocutor electing William Robertson as surveyor and collector of poors’ rates, seeking to recall it and restore their heritors’ rights.

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Answers by the defender to the pursuer's averments, denying employment, interest charges, and responsibility for accounts incurred in prior litigation.

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Pursuers claim defender benefited from their legal work in entailed estate proceedings; defender denies employment, denies benefit, and asserts accounts are unproven.