In the House of Lords, (from the Court of Session in Scotland), the Lady Sophia Frederica Christina Hastings, now Marchioness of Bute, eldest surviving daughter of the deceased Francis Marquis of Hastings, and Flora Mure Countess of Loudoun, his wife, and (by order of the House) the Most Honourable John Marquis of Bute, her husband, for his interest, appellants, Lord Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet Hastings, second son of the deceased George Augustus Francis Marquis of Hastings, and Patrick Dalmahoy, writer to the Signet, his tutor ad litem, respondents

the respondents' case