ELIZABETH CRAIGIE v EDWARD HOGGAN (Court of Session)

This is the sequel of the case formerly reported on the 19th January 1837, ( F. C. vol. xii. p. 309.)

The narrative is already given so fully, with all the documents, in the former report, that it is unnecessary to repeat them again.

It is proper, however, to state, in addition, that the evidence of the father and sister, which was admitted, by the judgment then pronounced, was to this effect:

The father said, that a night or two after the first letter written by the defender, that of the 8th March 1834, antedated to the 25th January, he begged to see Hoggan, and told him that ‘he was not satisfied with the stipulation of secrecy in the letter, and that the marriage should be made public. That Hoggan said that he wished ‘it’ to be kept private for some time,’ &c., which was understood by the deponent to mean the marriage; and the deponent told him, that unless the marriage was made public, he (deponent) would consult counsel as to raising a declarator of marriage.

The sister, Ann Craigie, deponed, that she had an interview with the defender, and had asked, ‘what he meant by the expression in his letter, as to keeping the marriage private?’ that he said he wished to keep it private, as it would hurt him to publish it; that she urged him ‘to make the marriage public,’ but he refused; and that he never ‘contradicted’ her for using the word ‘marriage’ in this conversation.