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[1750] 1 Elchies 407      

Subject_1 REPARATION.

Hamilton
v.
Arbuthnot

1750, June 19.
Case No. No. 6.

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Arbuthnot having said to several customers that Mr Hamilton's goods were mildewed and rotten to spoil the sale of his goods; Hamilton sued him before the Bailies of Edinburgh and recovered decreet for L.40 sterling. A bill of suspension being offered they first insisted on the incompetency of the Bailie-Court, because this was a scandal and only competent to the Commissaries. But we thought there was nothing in the objection where it was a real injury affecting the pursuer's fortune and estate and concluding damages, though it was only in words; and we agreed that there was sufficient cause for the proeess, and we only differed as to the quantity of damages, whether L.20 or L.40, but on a vote it carried by the narrowest majority to refuse the bill in toto.

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