Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER, LORD FOUNTAINHALL.
Hay of Knockhoudie v. John Litlejohn
Date: 15 June 1669
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[See the prior part of this Case, supra, page 428.]
Jo. Litlejohn having comprised the liferent of a tenement of land, called Babylon, in Leith, which being ruinous, fell and damnified the neighbour's tenement in 600 merks; for the which, the neighbours got sentence against the said Littlejohn, compriser of the liferent, reserving action against the heritor, as accords: and the heritor being convened, conform to this reservation,
The Lords found the liferenter and the compriser not liable in reparations of this kind, et quæ habent causam perpetuam; but only to keep the house water tight and wind tight; and therefore decerned.
Act. Lockhart and Dinmuire.Alt. Sinclar and Chalmer.
Advocates' MS. folio 60.
