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[1752] 2 Elchies 133
Subject_1 Community.
Date: Coopers of Perth
v.
Davidson and Donaldson, and Others
8 July 1752
Case No.No. 7.
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The Lords found, that the merchants in Perth may have persons of skill as their servant to make salmon casks, and pack their salmon for exportation, and are not obliged to hire the coopers of Perth, who are a branch of the Incorporation of Wrights, as a man may employ his own servant to shave him, or make his clothes; or a merchant may employ his own servants to sew wrappers about his packs or bales of goods; and they suspended a decreet of the Magistrates of Perth at the instance of the Corporation of Wrights fining these servants, or rather coopers, renitent. Minto, Kilkerran, et me, who thought that was eluding all Corporation privileges, and by the same argument a merchant may hire as his servants weavers, shoemakers, or any other craftsmen, if he can find employment enough for them either by home-sale or by export; for the President thought that they might employ their servants to make casks for export, though no salmon were packed in them. (See Dict. No. 68. p. 1938, and No. 112. p. 2006.)
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