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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, collected by JAMES BURNETT, LORD MONBODDO.
Subject_2 MONBODDO.
Date: M'Lellan, Messenger,
v.
-
10 February 1766 Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
In this case the Lords sustained as competent an action of damages and oppression against a messenger for having apprehended a man without having the caption, as it was said, in his possession, and obliging him to give his watch to the creditor as a pledge for the debt and the messenger's fee; and they decerned him to pay L.l in [name of damages, with the costs of suit; dissent. Auchinleck, who thought the action frivolous, and the grounds of it not proven.
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