GLENDALE CROFTERS IN COURT. 115 



THE GLENDALE CROFTERS AND THE 

 COURT OF SESSION. 



IT appears that the Glendale crofters have permitted their 

 stock to remain on the farm of Waterstein, notwithstanding 

 an interdict procured against them, in absence, in the Court 

 of Session, and they are now further charged with an assault 

 on one of the shepherds. Unlike the Braes tenants, they 

 were apparently not only quite willing to receive any number 

 of writs, but they were at the same time most courteous to 

 the officers of the law, who have had occasion to visit them 

 repeatedly in the performance of their official duties. On 

 the last occasion they, with the greatest consideration, ferried 

 Mr. MacTavish, the sheriff officer, across the loch from one 

 district to another with the unserved portion of the writs, 

 for those on the opposite side, in his possession. 



The following report of what took place in the Court of 

 Session will explain how the matter stood with them in 

 January 



PETITION AND COMPLAINT. MACLEOD'S TRUSTEES v. MAC- 

 KINNON AND OTHERS, GLENDALE CROFTERS. 



This petition and complaint was presented by the Trustees 

 of the late Sir John Macpherson MacLeod, of Duirinish, 

 K. C.S.I., and the petitioners complained of various breaches 

 of interdict against five of the crofters on the estate of 

 Duirinish and Glendale, in the island of Skye, which estate 

 is in the hands of the petitioners as trustees. The case 

 was before the Court on the nth of January, when 



Mr. Murray, for the petitioners, appeared and said In 

 this case no answers have been lodged, and I have to ask 

 your lordships to pronounce an order ordaining the respon- 



