Musselburgh

Cases connected to this place (12)

• John Skeill v. Humphry-Bland Gardiner

  John Skeill, pursuer, provided horses for Robert Gardiner, father of the defendant and Commissary for British forces in Scotland. Skeill contends that he was paid for the use of his horses in the summer of 1759 but not …
• Forbes v. Magistrates of Canongate

  Archibald Forbes, creditor of Alexander Robertson, pursued the Magistrates of Canongate for unlawfully releasing Robertson from imprisonment for debt, alleging the liberation contravened the 1671 Act because the health …
• 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…
• Thomas Cowan v. William Aitchison and William Walker

  Thomas Cowan, flesher in Musselburgh, pursued William Aitchison, distiller at St Clement's Wells, and William Walker, attorney in Exchequer, upon a caution bond. Aitchison and Walker petitioned the Court twice to alter …
• Gardner v. Corporation of Goldsmiths in Edinburgh

  Alexander Gardner and David Downie, goldsmiths in Edinburgh, pursued the Corporation of Goldsmiths regarding the incorporation’s resolution to abolish the marking-money tax and its appropriation of marking money for pri…
• John Watson v. Sarah Marshall and Others

  John Watson, trustee for the creditors of David Ireland, petitioned the Court to alter a recent interlocutor, asserting that his claim founded upon a 1733 inhibition and Jean Crookshanks’s overt intromission gave him pr…
• Braimer v. Innes and Lothian

  John Braimer, late of Edrom, as pursuer, petitioned the Court to alter Lord Stonefield's interlocutor, which maintained Braimer's interdiction and declared the trustees not bound to pay over the balance. Gilbert Innes o…
• Archers and Others v. Magistrates of Edinburg

  James and Andrew Archers, John Hardy, and William Younger, brewers operating within the precincts of Holyroodhouse, pursued the magistrates of Edinburgh and Alexander Thomson to contest the legality of a two-penny duty …
• Earl of Lauderdale v. George Inglis of Reidhall

  James Earl of Lauderdale pursued George Inglis of Reidhall for the teinds of Reidball, asserting title by inheritance and inhibition and denying the defender’s claims of sale and prescription. Inglis defended his right,…
• Robertson and Husband v. Holland

  Martha Robertson, petitioner, sought payment on a bill from William Holland, respondent; at the same time, Archibald Ochiltree sought payment from Holland on a promissory note that was payable to Robertson but had been …
• John Beadie v. The Other Creditors of Thomas Heggie

  Thomas Heggie, joined by a group of his creditors, obtained a sequestration of his bankrupt estate. As required by statute, the sequestration was based on the oaths of creditors whose debts amounted to a specified sum. …
• Tod and Stoddart v. The Town of Edinburgh, and the Edinburgh Glass-house Company

  Tod and Stoddart pursued the Town of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Glasshouse Company to block the Company’s proposed alteration of the road to the sands of Leith, arguing that the change would deprive them of access and …