A LEGITIMACY ACTION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 685, 9 December 1909, Page 7

A LEGITIMACY ACTION.

STORY .-'.'OF OLD-TIME ELOPEMENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Aseociatlon.-Oopyrigbt.) J London, December:.' 7. : An action brought in the Court of Sessions at Edinburgh' by Alexander Weutworth Mac-, dbnald Bosvilleagainst Lord Macdonald. of Sleat, seeking.' a; decision that : his grandfather, bom on September 12, 1800, was legitimate, per subsequcns matrimonimn, haa been dismissed so .'far .as. the relationship is concerned, but the parties were allowed a proof on the question of legitimacy. - According' to the statement. of. claim, the claimant's great-grandfather eloped with Miss La Coast, an illegitimate daughter of. the Duke of Gloucester, and'married her at the British Embassy in Paris. A son and daughter were born. Subsequently Lady Macdonald insisted on. being, regularly, married in England. A second son was afterwards born, and the claim was then.raised that the second marriage deprived the two elder children of the advantage of being born in wedlock. : Mr. Bosville made no claim to; the Scotch estates of the family or the Irish peerage; only to have the legitimacy of his grandfather established.