In the House of Lords (from the Second Division of the Court of Session in Scotland), George Udny, formerly of no. 10 Ormonde Terrace, in the county of Middlesex, now residing in the city of St Andrews, in Scotland, and of Donald Horne and Thomas Elliot Ogilvie Horne, writers to the signet, Edinburgh, partners of the late firm of Horne and Rose, W.S., Edinburgh, now partners of the firm of Horne, Horne and Lyell, W.S., Edinburgh his mandatories, appellants, John Henry Udny, only surviving child of the late Colonel John Robert Fullerton Udny, of Udny and Dudwick, in the county of Aberdeen, a pupil, residing in Edinburgh and William Skinner, writer to the signet, Edinburgh, his curator ad litem, respondents

the respondents' case