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James Fairholm, Merchant in Edinburgh, v Kenneth M'Kenzie of Assint. [1710] Mor 3709 (29 July 1710)
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[1710] Mor 3709
James Fairholm, Merchant in Edinburgh, v. Kenneth M'Kenzie of Assint
Date: 29 July 1710 Case No. No 41.
Found in conformity with No 37. p. 3707.
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Process was sustained upon a summons at the instance of James Fairholm, against Kenneth M'Kenzie, as representing Mr John M'Kenzie of Assint, his father, for payment of 1000 merks, with annualrent and penalty, for which Mr John stood engaged to the pursuer, as cautioner for the Lord Duffus; albeit the defender was minor, and Mr Alexander M'Kenzie Colonel in his Majesty's foot-guards, his sole tutor, was in Spain, and not cited upon 60 and 15 days, as one out of the kingdom; nor yet edictally at the market cross of Dornock in Sutherland, where the minor's lands lay; and the summons was enrolled only against Kenneth M'Kenzie, though his tutors were concluded against in the libel; in respect Kenneth M'Kenzie was personally cited in Dr M'Kenzie's house at Fortrose, where he resided at school; and his tutors and curators in general, were cited edictally at the market cross of the head burgh where the minor dwells; and it was needles to enroll against tutors, who are only called edictally pro interesse, and not concluded against in the libel nominatim, but only as tutors in general ex stilo.
