Lieutenant-Colonel John Gordon of Cluny, Appellant. John Anderson, Late Tenant of Kirktown of Slains; Adam Gray, Messenger in Peterhead; Alexander Shepherd, in Aldie; Thomas Garland, in Ardlethan, and James Milne, in Mains of Esslemont, Trustees for the Creditors of James H. Mudie, Residing at Peterhead, and Carnegy and Shepherd, Writers to the Signet, and James Carnegy and James Shepherd, the Individual Partners of that Firm, for Their Interest, Respondents. The Appellant's Case