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SCOTTISH_SLR_Court_of_Session
Page: 814↓
Court of Session Inner House First Division.
Facts:
Edmund Baxter, W.S., Auditor of the Court of Session, presented a petition to the Court of Session stating that he was at present seriously unwell, and that in the present state of the Session it was of serious importance that the work of the office should be carried on, and praying the Court to make such an interim appointment as they might think fit.
Counsel referred to 1 and 2 Geo. IV. cap. 38, sec. 38, and to Mackay's Manual of Practice (1893), p. 83, which contained a list of other offices to which the Court had made ad interim appointments.
The Court appointed Mr Ellison Ross, S.S.C., to discharge the duties of Auditor until the third sederunt-day of next Session.
Counsel for the Petitioner— Mackay. Agent— Charles Baxter, W.S.