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SEAFIELD PEERAGE CASE

AMENDMENTS .TO PLEADINGS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON; 24th February. The Seafield peerage case was again mentioned to Lord Moncrieff in the Court of Sessions at Edinburgh on Saturday, when a minute of amendment of the pleadings of the defendants and answers thereto for the plaintiff, were allowed. The. action is hy Alexander Grant, .a retired tutor, of Cromwell, road, London, against Lady Seafield and others, and it raises a claim/to the peerage. The plaintiff asks the Court to find proved a marriage on Ist November, 1846, between Viscount Reidhaven (afterwards seventh Earl of Seafield) and Caroline Stewart, youngest daughter of the eleventh Baroii Blantyre, and to declare that he is the eldest and legitimate child of the marriage.

, The plaintiff alleges that Caroline Stewart and Lord Reidhaven met in 1845. or 1846 at Doehfour or Beaufort Castle, and that intimacy followed. Owing to her condition, Caroline sailed, secretly from the Clyd-s for Cullen, but, owing t> stormy weather, continued the'voyage to Banff, where, on board the vessel, the parties entered into a marriage by verbal declaration before witnesses. The plaintiff avers that Caroline shortly afterwards gave birth t) a child in Banff, and that he is that child of the marriage. He says he was entrusted to foster parents, who received a liberal allowance for his maintenance and education from Lord Reidhaven. v The latter 's interest in the child, plaintiff Rays, was borne out by letters which were either written or instructed by Lord Reidhaveu.

The defendants deny all threo averments, and have lodged amendments to ths pleadings, in which they state that Lord Ecidhavcn was not at Dochfour.or Beaufort Castle at the time averred.

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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 85, 10 April 1926, Page 7

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SEAFIELD PEERAGE CASE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 85, 10 April 1926, Page 7

SEAFIELD PEERAGE CASE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 85, 10 April 1926, Page 7

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