Ireland

Cases connected to this place (14)

• Thomas Stoddart v. M'Quan, Beck, and Company

  Around 1765 MacWhan, Beck, and Company participated in a number of smuggling adventures with Currie, Park, and Company. In 1768, David Currie pressed upon John Beck to accept a bill for £163 on the account kept between …
• James Turnbull and Malcolm Macdonald v. Sir George Home, Baronet

  James Turnbull and Malcolm Macdonald, as suspenders, sought to compel their bound apprentice Alexander M'Kenzie to return to service and argued that he could not legally enter His Majesty's Fleet as a volunteer. Sir Geo…
• Bernard Love v. George Foster

  Bernard Love, as pursuer, lodged a reclaiming note against Lord Moncreiff's interlocutor in his action against George Foster, defender. Based on the single document cataloged for this case.
• Wilkins v. Campbell

  Miss Elizabeth Wilkins pursued William Campbell, Sheriff-Clerk of Ayr, seeking to hold him liable for a debt on the ground that he had rendered himself responsible by accepting an illegal bond of caution for Edmund Kell…
• Pringle v. Hamilton

  Pringle pursued Hamilton for payment of a bill of exchange drawn by David Cathcart in 1762, while Hamilton defended on the grounds that the instrument had not been duly negotiated and that the debt was prescribed. Pring…
• Cunningham and Simpson v. Sir George Home, Baronet, and the Commissioners for raising Seamen at the Port of Leith

  Cunningham and Simpson petitioned the Court to alter the interlocutor of Lord Dreghorn, Ordinary on the bills, which had refused a bill of suspension in the matter of apprentices Dowie, Stewart, and Drysdale. They subse…
• Margaret Scruton v. John Gray

  Gray, defender, was a native of Cork, Ireland who attended university in Scotland. Scruton, pursuer, claimed that she and Gray married in Glasgow while he was attending college there. Scruton sought a "decree of declara…
• Alexander Fergusson, and Others v. The Magistrates of Glasgow

  The pursuers, who were also suspenders in a related action, challenged the authority of the magistrates of Glasgow to impose a duty on potatoes.
• The York-Buildings Company v. Alexander Mackenzie

  The York-Buildings Company, as pursuers, sought reduction of the sale and damages against Alexander Mackenzie, Writer to the Signet, alleging that he had fraudulently purchased Seton lots through a collusive sale proces…
• Bellinger v. Monboddo's Interlocutor

  Reclaiming petition brought by William Bellinger challenging the interlocutor from the process of advocation and the judgment of the lower court finding for pursuer, Alexander Smith under the statute 9 of Queen Anne. Th…
• McMinn v. His Creditors

  Around June of 1777 John McMinn, late chapman in Kirkcudbright, was imprisoned in the Wigtown tolbooth for unpaid debts. He then brought a process of Cessio Bonorum to the Court of Session, and the Court granted him the…
• Hope v. Mutter

  The defender William Mutter, Esq. petitioned the Court to remit the pursuer Hope's proceedings against him for the lands of Camps, which he claimed to have held in peaceable possession for nearly twenty-four years. Base…
• Colvill v. M'Ewan

  Lieutenant George Colvill petitioned the Court to alter its interlocutor finding him liable to M'Ewan for damages and expenses for allegedly harbouring an apprentice who absconded. Based on the single document cataloged…
• Mrs Margaret Dick v. George Heriot

  Mrs Margaret Dick Maitland-Makgill and James Heriot pursued reduction of George Heriot's service as heir to the estate of Ramornie, challenging his legitimacy as the son of the deceased Ensign George Heriot and his cons…