Scottish Court of Session Decisions

John M'Gruther, factor loco tutoris to Charles Campbell Graham, a pupil between seven and eight years of age, presented a petition, setting forth, that the pupil was next heir of entail to an estate of £800 a-year; that the heir in possession, a man about 85 years of age, was in delicate health, and had been many years married, without family, and his wife was above 40 years of age; that the pupil was entirely destitute of means, and was maintained at the petitioner's expense, at the rate of from £20 to £30 per annum; that it was proper to raise some fund to educate the pupil in a manner more suitable to his prospects, and he proposed to insure the pupil's life against that of the heir in possession, to the extent of £500, and to raise one-half of that sum immediately, and apply it for the pupil's maintenance. He referred to a precedent in March, 1833, John Hannay, petitioner. ^* He therefore prayed the Court, after the usual intimation and remit to the Lord Ordinary, “to authorize the petitioner to insure the sum of £500 upon the life of Charles Campbell Graham, and to borrow the one-half of that sum on the security thereof, to be applied in the manner, and for the purposes set forth in the petition.”