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Pursuer challenges a 1827 decree awarding her liability for alleged improvements to an entailed estate, contending the claims were fraudulent and procedurally invalid under statute 10 Geo III c 51.

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Answers by James Tytler, W.S., defending against summons of reduction by Miss Anne Macpherson of Belleville, asserting the decree is null and void and he is entitled to be assoilzied simpliciter.

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Executor-dative qua creditor seeks payment of 3/4 share of entail-improvement costs from successor heir, who defends via reduction of prior decree.

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Lord Ordinary rejects claimants' fund share claim, finding no direct employment or heritors' benefit from charged items, and holding the claim inadmissible without general constitution against all heritors.

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Chargers deny extortion and dispute fund in medio amount, rejecting suspender's offers and interest claims.

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Court finds letters orderly to extent of £381 12s 2d plus interest from May 31, 1837, but suspends remainder due to suspension reasons.

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Defender seeks to bar pursuer’s claim for £500 by asserting prior litigation and jury verdict absolving her liability.

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Miss Margaret Stewart, as representative of her deceased sister, defends against her sister’s widow and heir in a supplementary process for declarator and payment.

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Memorial of John Herries Maxwell and others, Executors of Richard Howat, arguing that the claimant R. Kirkpatrick Howat is entitled to expenses incurred and that the Raisers be ordered to pay them from the fund in medio.

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Trustees must account for all interests accruing after death, not just within first year, as capital was to be invested immediately and profits belong to heir from outset.