Scottish Court of Session Decisions

The estates of John Mackay Anderson were sequestrated, in terms of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1856, in 1870, and a trustee appointed thereon. The estates of the bankrupt were realised, the proceeds divided, and the trustee having transmitted to the Accountant in Bankruptcy the sederunt-book in the sequestration, was discharged in 1872. The bankrupt was not discharged, and he thereafter succeeded to certain heritable property on the death of his father.

This was a petition presented by Andrew Shaw, a creditor, for the appointment of a new trustee on the sequestrated estate.

On 7th April 1884 the Lord Ordinary on the Bills pronounced this interlocutor:—“Appoints the petition to be intimated on the walls and in the minute-book for eight days, to be served on John Mackay Anderson, the bankrupt, and intimated by advertisement in the Edinburgh Gazette; and grants warrant to and authorises the Deputy-Clerk Register to transmit the sederunt-book in the sequestration to the office of the clerk to this process for inspection there by the parties, and subject to future orders of the Court.”

Intimation, advertisement, and service, as ordered, was made, and the sederunt — book transmitted to the clerk of the process. The Lord Ordinary on the Bills ( Kinnear) subsequently refused to pronounce any order in the case.

On 14th May, when the petition appeared in the Single Bills, the First Division, without delivering opinions, pronounced this interlocutor:—

“The Lords of new appoint the petition to be intimated on the walls and in the minute-book for eight days, to be served on John Mackay Anderson, the bankrupt, and to be intimated by advertisement in the Edinburgh Gazette.”