Dundonnell Cause, Second Trial; Report of the Trial by Jury, Thomas M'Kenzie, Esq. Against Robert Roy, Esq. W.S., in the Court of Session at Edinburgh, 4th January 1831 and Four Following Days (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1831 Excerpt: ... pot been, found in his repositories, and that is a very important document. Every trivial note and scrap that has been written has been anxiously preserved, well docqueted on the back in the handwriting of the lady, and all found at the opening of the repositories; but the original of the minute as to the legacies, has not been recovered. But, says the defender, he put into my hands a certain note of instructions, and of certain legacies and provisions. Roy does not pretend to say that he assisted him in the preparation of that note of legacies; if he did, what will you think of that preparation? It is supposed by the Lord Advocate, that all that was necessary to make a man understand it, was previously explained by Robert Roy, and that there was nothing more to be done but to put it into the language of the law. That never will do; for if these two papers were manufactured by the party intrusted, you will not take them to be the actual deeds of the man. Besides, Roy regrets that explanation. His case is, Dundonnell prepared and gave me fully drawn up this paper as to the legacies, of which we have Roy's copy. I need not read over the expressions of the legacies to you, which the medical gentleman, whom we have examined, told you he could neither understand nor originate, and far less reflect on their import and consequence. But there are some other things to notice, and which I beg that you will carry along with you. Dundonnell, it is said, verbally added (very odd that this should not have also been put into the paper of legacies when he was to send the instructions to the agent in Edinburgh), that Campbell was to have an annuity of L.20, if he continued in his service at his death. Is that in the?iote of instructions of 1820 prepared by Macandrew? We sha...