Father liable for furnishings to his son above majority, while the son was apprentice.
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James Maxwell, son to Hugh, from the age of nineteen to that of twenty-two, during the two first years of which he was an apprentice to a linen manufacturer, contracted some trifling debts to tradesmen, and, among others, one of L. 7 to Telfer, a tailor. There were no complaints that his father had pinched him in his allowance.
In a process at the tailor's instance against the father, the son being dead,
“The Lords found the father liable for the debt.”
Act. Agnew.Alt. Hugh Dalrymple.
Fol. Dic. v. 4. p. 39. Fac. Col. No 140. p. 256.
