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SCOTTISH_SLR_Court_of_Session
Page: 735↓
Court of Session Inner House Second Division.
v.
In this cause, in which John Pyles sen., sometime innkeeper in Dumfries, was pursuer, and
Page: 736↓
John Turner Scott, burgh officer of Dumfries, and residing there, and John Malcolm, superintendent of police, Dumfries, and residing there, were defenders, the issue was as follows:— “Whether, on or about the 21st day of November 1866, the defenders wrongfully and illegally searched the Hound and Hare Inn, in Dumfries, occupied and tenanted by the pursuer, or part thereof—to the loss, injury, and damage of the pursuer?”
Damages laid at £500.
Fraser and Rhind for pursuer.
Young and Gifford for defenders.
The jury returned a verdict for the defenders.
Solicitors: Agent for Pursuer— James Barton, S.S.C.
Agent for Defenders— wm. Kennedy, W.S.