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SCOTTISH_SLR_Court_of_Session
Page: 27↓
Court of Session Inner House First Division.
[Sheriff of Wigtown.
v.
Facts:
Held ( dub. Lord Deas)—(1) that the traveling expenses incurred by an Inspector of Poor for a parish in obtaining information as to the true settlement of a pauper to whom the said parish had afforded relief, and (2) that the expense incurred by the said parish in prosecuting the husband of the said pauper for desertion, could not be claimed in terms of the 71st section of Poor Law Amendment (Scotland) Act, 1845, against the parish to which the pauper was ultimately found to belong.
Counsel for the Pursuer— Macdonald. Agent— James Somerville, S.S.C.
Counsel for the Defender— Solicitor—General (Watson) and Guthrie Smith. Agent— W. S. Stuart, S.S.C.