Report Of The First And Second Trials Of The Issue In The Action Of Damages At The Instance Of William Miller - Softcover

John Sturrock

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461412799 ISBN 13: 9780461412796

Publisher: HardPress, 2019

Synopsis

Report Of The First And Second Trials Of The Issue In The Action Of Damages At The Instance Of William Miller: Lately Tenant Of The Farms Of Springfield And Oldhamstocks, In The County Of Haddington; Against James William Hunter, ESQ. Of Thurston by John Sturrock. This volume documents a 19th-century Scottish Court of Session case in which Miller, a long-term tenant of Springfield and Oldhamstocks, sues for damages after a landlord’s interdict prevented him from taking a substantial “black crop” (approximately 100 acres of potatoes) during the final year of a 21-year lease. It records the first trial and a second trial from 1865, along with extensive appendices comprising lease documents and Hope’s agricultural reports that shape the damages calculations. Key questions address the legality and calculation of damages for a wrongful interdict, the interpretation of six-shift versus five- or four-shift rotations under good husbandry, and the role of expert testimony in valuing lost profits. The verdict awarded Miller £656 4s 3d including interest from 1 January 1860, illustrating the intersection of tenancy law, agricultural economics, and historical lease practice in East Lothian.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461412799
• ISBN 13: 9780461412796
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 635