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Subject_1 TUTOR - CURATOR - PUPIL.
Parkhill
v.
Geddes of Scotstown
1742 ,Nov. 24 .
Case No.No. 15.
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The Lords found that a tutor neglecting to make up inventories of his pupil's father's means, (a merchant) nor even sundry malversations, pretty like frauds, were no sufficient ground for giving the pupil, now of age, an oath in litem of the extent of his father's free means, nor to decern in any particular sum upon the uncertain conjectural evidence of neighbours, that they thought the deponent worth so much; but reserved the effect of these malversations in advising the proof upon any articles of the tutor's accounts that should afterwards be brought, 24th November. 8th December, Refused a bill without answers, and adhered.
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