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Cite as: [1894] SLR 31_942, [1894] ScotLR 31_942

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SCOTTISH_SLR_Court_of_Session

Page: 942

Court of Session Outer House.

Tuesday, June 5. 1894.

(Before the Lord Chancellor (Herschell) and Lords Watson, Ashbourne, Macnaghten, Morris, and Shand.)

31 SLR 942

Stevenson

v.

Stevenson.

(Ante, vol. xxxi. p. 350.)


Subject_1Parent and Child
Subject_2Custody of Children
Subject_3Husband and Wife
Subject_4Guardianship of Infants Act 1886 (49 and 50 Vict. cap. 27), sec. 5. Headnote:

This case is reported ante, vol. xxxi. p. 350.

Mr Stevenson appealed.

The House, on the undertaking of the appellant to abandon the proceedings in England and to commence without delay an action for judicial separation in Scotland, and to proceed therein with due diligence, recalled the interlocutor appealed against, and remitted the cause to the Court of Session to sist the proceedings appealed against in hoc statu pending the decision of the wife's action; the wife to have the interim custody of the children; the husband to have reasonable access.

Counsel:

Counsel for the Appellant—The Lord Advocate ( J. B. Balfou r, Q.C.)— Levett, Q.C. Agents— Bower, Cotton, & Bower, for J. Murray Lawson, S.S.C.

Counsel for the Respondent— Graham Murray, Q.C.— H. Tindal Atkinson. Agents— Murray, Hutchins, & Company, for Maconochie & Hare, W.S.

1894


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