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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR ROGER HOG OF HARCARSE.
Bailie Hamilton
v.
-
1687 .July .Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
Nasmith and Hamilton, bailies of Hamilton, being pursued, subsidiarie, for
the debt due by a prisoner, whom Nasmith, by collusion, had suffered to escape; and Hamilton having paid the whole, for Nasmith was insolvent, he raised an action against the electors for choosing an insolvent magistrate. The Lords, finding this a novelty, refused to sustain process. Page 262, No. 933.
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