James Thomson - Wetherel - Wilson v. Thomas Forrester - Lushingto - Dundas [1830] UKHL 4_WS_136
On a question of fact, relative to a tenant's liability for a year's rent, the House of Lords, (affirming the judgment of the Court of Session), held the tenant not to be liable.Forrester held a lease of a farm from Balfour of Leys, (whose factor loco tutoris was James Thomson), for nineteen years from Whitsunday and Martinmas 1797. Among the subjects let were a mill and orchards; and from these Forrester was to remove at Whitsunday 1816, but not from the arable lands until the ensuing Michaelmas. Nearly five years after a settlement with Forrester, and his removal from the farm, a claim was made upon him by Thomson for the value of the fruit of the year 1816; and in an action the Sheriff of Perthshire and the Lord OrdinaryPage: 137 ↓
Solicitors: James Chalmer— Spottiswoode and Robertson,—Solicitors.