Scottish Court of Session Decisions

Subject_1 WITNESS.

Jamieson, &c
v.
Wells

1751, July 19.
Case No. No. 31.

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In the trial of forgery Jamieson against Alexander Forrester, wherein the pursuer endeavoured to improve the subscription of one Calpine, and for that end to recover some of Calpine's true subscriptions; it was proved that Robert Wells, (who was married to the prisoner's wife's sister) getting notice that one Fulton who had a writing subscribed by Calpine was summoned, went to his house, made a pretence for getting a sight of the writing, and Fulton going out of the room he erazed Calpine's subscription, and on Fulton's return gave him the paper folded so that Fulton did not discover the trick till next day; and from thence Wells went to one Barr who had a bill accepted by Calpine, and endeavoured to purchase it, but not agreeing trysted him to Glasgow, where the bill was brought up by Wells's wife. Therefore we committed him to prison till the 28th of August. And at first we agreed to set him on the pillory for an hour, but before the Sentence was written, we thought that would make him infamous, which we thought too severe, and therefore left it out of the sentence.