Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
James Reid v. John Reid
Date: 6 March 1684
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James Reid, merchant in Edinburgh, against John Reid, skipper in Leith, is debated, and decided, anent the setting of a ship, and reducing a decreet of the Admiral's. The Lords found, though the set expressed no more but only James Reid and the skipper; yet it behoved to be interpreted not only for the skipper's four parts of the ship, but also for the parts belonging to the other owners, who were called as defenders and joined with the skipper; and so decerned against James for the price of eight sixteen-parts. But, in regard the skipper had not yet, upon oath, given in an inventary of the ship's whole furniture and tackling, they ordained him to depone thereanent: though James was at a great loss by the eleven months' delay, and plea; so that the ship was turned unserviceable; et res non erat amplius integra.
