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The petitioner, Love, became bankrupt, and was sequestrated; and the other petitioner, Maclaren, and the respondent Railton, were competitors for the office of trustee on Love's sequestrated estate, the question of competition being in dependence.
The Sheriff granted warrant as prayed for, and the respondent was brought up for examination, and examined. A precognition was taken, and the respondent was committed for trial. He made intimation under the act 1701, was thereafter liberated on bail, and the period under the statute expired without criminal letters being served upon him.
As to the present complaint being barred by the dependence of the competition for the office of trustee, it was that very dependence, supposing there was no other ground, which made the complaint competent. The complainers could not have insisted in their present demand by a mere motion in the competition, and the charges now made could only be brought forward in the shape of a complaint.
It was also maintained generally, that under the charges brought against the respondent, the question was not one in which the Court had jurisdiction.
The Court unanimously found the petition and complaint incompetent, and refused the desire thereof, and found the respondent entitled to expenses, &c.
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