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Dr John Craigie went early in life to India in the medical line, and while there, married, and had a family of six children, viz. John Adair, William Charles, Edmund Buchan, Harriet Sarah, Jane Emilia, and Maria Sophia Craigie. Having acquired a fortune of about L.14,000, he returned, in 1786, to this country with his wife and family, and bought a house in George Square, Edinburgh, where he resided.
This deed reserved a power to revoke or alter in common form, and other usual clauses.
Soon after the date of these deeds, Dr Craigie went to India, and after remaining there for some years, he found it necessary, on account of his health, again to return to this country.
Dr Craigie died on board the Houghton, on 10th February 1795; and this last-mentioned will was proved in Doctors Commons, and probate granted to the executors, in November 1795.
As the trustees named by the trust-deed entertained doubts whether or not it was revoked by the subsequent wills, its validity was tried by an amicable suit, in the shape of a suspension, at the instance of James Drummond, a debtor to the estate. The Court were unanimously of opinion, that the trust-deed was valid and subsisting, and in no degree revoked or superseded by the subsequent wills, which, the Court held, were to be looked upon merely as deeds of instruction to the trustees, whereby they were to regulate their conduct.
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