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[1766] 5 Brn 920      

Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, collected by JAMES BURNETT, LORD MONBODDO.
Subject_2 MONBODDO.

M'Lellan, Messenger,
v.
-

Date: 10 February 1766

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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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