Inzievar dam - Col. J. Erskine of Carnock (The Black Colonel) v. Preston of Valleyfield : 1720 - 1743 / spine title
Court of Session (Scotland)1712
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This item is a bound document recording the protracted dispute between Colonel John Erskine of Carnock (and carried on by his son on his death in 1743) and General George Preston of Valleyfield. The dispute concerned Inzevar/Inzever Damm [Inzievar Dam], described as a mile long and covering some 60 acres of ground on Erskine’s property. Erskine stated that his coalworks at Torryburn were ‘intirely drowned… for want of the Use of this Dam’ because of Preston’s decades-long use of the water for Valleyfield ‘Coaliary’. Papers dating back to 1680 had been recovered, that Erskine stated showed the heritors of Preston had not possession but only a ‘Tolerance’ to use the water of Inzievar Dam. Preston stated that Valleyfield coalworks had been served ‘Time out of Mind’ by Inzievar Dam water and that Valleyfield estate would not have been bought in 1708, nor the aqueduct repaired, if he was not entitled to use the dam-water. The document contains details of witnesses in the case as well as information on local estates.
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Imprint:
[Edinburgh], 1743
Collation:
[unumb] ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Depositions of witnesses... 1711 & 1712Information for Erskine 1714Petition of Erskine 1720Answers for Preston 1721-- Answers for Erskine 1721Petition for Preston 1721Petition of Erskine 1721Petition of Preston 1738Petition and answers for Erskine 1738Information for Preston 1739Additional information for Erskine 1741Information for Preston 1741Answers for Erskine 1741Summary of the proof 1742Report of the Commission 1741Memorial for Preston 1741Petition of Preston 1743 (2 copies included, with different penned annotations)Answers for Erskine 1743
Local class:
CAR
Language:
English
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BRN:
3451181