Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL.
John Wilson, Fiscal of Cumnock, v. William Crawford of Dalligles
Date: 20 January 1693
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John Wilson, procurator-fiscal of the Regality of Cumnock, against Mr. William Crawford of Dalligles. The Lords found little matter of riot in the master's hindering his tenant to stack in that barn yard, and casting down some of the sheaffs; but considered his contempt of the Judge, and his vilipending expressions and carriage, and thought that deserved a fine; and therefore sustained the decreet quoad L.100 Scots, which was the half of the fine the bailie had imposed; because the face of authority is to be kept up and maintained. And repelled that allegeance, that the fiscal could not pursue this without the party injured his concourse.
